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title: I consider the probability to lie in an origin elsewhere: I think it… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I consider the probability to lie in an origin elsewhere: I think it more likely than not that any tale found in a place was rather brought there than born there. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 31

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I consider the probability to lie in an origin elsewhere: I think it more likely than not that any tale found in a place was rather brought there than born there.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** consider, lie, think, find, not bring, bear · **To what, where:** probability, origin, tale, place · **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 (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:pg14241:4:31
# text = I consider the probability to lie in an origin elsewhere: I think it more likely than not that any tale found in a place was rather brought there than born there.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	consider	consider	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	elsewhere	elsewhere	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	think	think	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	16	advmod	_	_
16	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
17	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	ccomp	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
30	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	xcomp	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | present | I | the probability |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent probability=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **lie** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  | a origin |  | elsewhere *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in origin=Location |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present | I | probability |  |  |  | likely *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | participle |  | any tale *not said here* |  | a place |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **bring** | past · passive |  | any tale |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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