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title: And--conclusive argument--wilt thou, oh orthodox brother folk-lorist… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And--conclusive argument--wilt thou, oh orthodox brother folk-lorist, still continue to use Grimm and Asbjörnsen? A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 17

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And--conclusive argument--wilt thou, oh orthodox brother folk-lorist, still continue to use Grimm and Asbjörnsen?

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**What happens:** continue, use · **To what, where:** Grimm

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:4:17
# text = And--conclusive argument--wilt thou, oh orthodox brother folk-lorist, still continue to use Grimm and Asbjörnsen?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	conclusive	conclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	argument	argument	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	wilt	will	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	14	discourse	_	_
10	orthodox	orthodox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	lorist	lorist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	continue	continue	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Asbjörnsen	Asbjörnsen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive |  | Grimm and Asbjörnsen |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grimm=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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