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title: But even the reader innocent of folk-lore can see that, holding thes… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But even the reader innocent of folk-lore can see that, holding these views, I do not attribute much anthropological value to tales whose origin is probably foreign, and am certainly not likely to make a hard-and-fast division between tales of the North Countrie and those told across the Border. Who
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 33

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But even the reader innocent of folk-lore can see that, holding these views, I do not attribute much anthropological value to tales whose origin is probably foreign, and am certainly not likely to make a hard-and-fast division between tales of the North Countrie and those told across the Border.

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**Who acts:** reader, I, origin, North Countrie · **What happens:** see, hold, not attribute, be, not be, make · **To what, where:** that, views, much anthropological value, hard fast division, Border · **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 (reader, I, origin, North Countrie), 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:pg14241:4:33
# text = But even the reader innocent of folk-lore can see that, holding these views, I do not attribute much anthropological value to tales whose origin is probably foreign, and am certainly not likely to make a hard-and-fast division between tales of the North Countrie and those told across the Border.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	holding	hold	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	attribute	attribute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
22	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	anthropological	anthropological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	cop	_	_
35	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	likely	likely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	xcomp	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
41	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	fast	fast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
47	between	between	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
51	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	Countrie	Countrie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	52	conj	_	_
55	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl	_	_
56	across	across	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | can | the reader | that |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | gerund | the reader *not said here* | this views |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **attribute** | present · do-support | I | much anthropological value |  |  |  | to tales | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | origin |  |  |  |  | foreign, probably *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | certainly, likely *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a hard fast division |  |  |  | between tales of the North Countrie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset division=Product |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  | the Border |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **tell** |  | the North Countrie |  |  |  |  |  | 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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