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title: This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother fol… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. Who acts: volume, I. 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 2

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This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general.

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**Who acts:** volume, I · **What happens:** come, fancy · **To what, where:** general

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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: who acts (volume, I), 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:pg14241:4:2
# text = This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fancy	fancy	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	both	both	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
16	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	lorists	lorist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	public	public	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | future | this volume |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fancy** | present | I |  |  | general |  | as a surprise; to my brother folk lorists and the public | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent as surprise=Attribute |

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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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