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title: It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (_English… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (_English Fairy Tales_) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional folk-tales of England. Who acts: England. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 3

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It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (\_English Fairy Tales\_) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional folk-tales of England.

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**Who acts:** England · **What happens:** think, exhaust, tell · **To what, where:** volume, former volume · **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 (England), 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:pg14241:4:3
# text = It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (_English Fairy Tales_) had almost exhausted the scanty remains of the traditional folk-tales of England.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	remains	remains	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	20	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | might · perfect · passive |  | volume |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **exhaust** | past · perfect · passive |  | my former volume |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer remains=Result |
| 3 | **tell** |  | England |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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