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title: A tale in Henderson is English: why not a tale in Chambers, the majo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A tale in Henderson is English: why not a tale in Chambers, the majority of whose tales are to be found also south of the Tweed? Who acts: tale, majority. 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 27

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A tale in Henderson is English: why not a tale in Chambers, the majority of whose tales are to be found also south of the Tweed?

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**Who acts:** tale, majority · **What happens:** be, find, tell · **To what, where:** English, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tale, majority), 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:pg14241:4:27
# text = A tale in Henderson is English: why not a tale in Chambers, the majority of whose tales are to be found also south of the Tweed?
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Henderson	Henderson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
8	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
24	also	also	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	south	south	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Tweed	Tweed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a tale in Henderson | English |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive |  | a tale in Chambers |  |  |  | of the Tweed; south *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** |  | the majority of the majority of tales's tales |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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