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title: I am inclined to follow the tradition of my old nurse, who was not b… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am inclined to follow the tradition of my old nurse, who was not bred at Girton and who scorned at times the rules of Lindley Murray and the diction of smart society. Who acts: Lindley Murray. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the p
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 35

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I am inclined to follow the tradition of my old nurse, who was not bred at Girton and who scorned at times the rules of Lindley Murray and the diction of smart society.

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**Who acts:** Lindley Murray · **What happens:** incline, follow, not breed, scorn, rule · **To what, where:** I, tradition, Girton

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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 (Lindley Murray), 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:pg14241:4:35
# text = I am inclined to follow the tradition of my old nurse, who was not bred at Girton and who scorned at times the rules of Lindley Murray and the diction of smart society.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Girton	Girton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Lindley	Lindley	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Murray	Murray	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	diction	diction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	society	society	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **incline** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  | the tradition of my old nurse |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tradition=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **breed** | past · passive |  | the tradition of my old nurse |  | Girton |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **scorn** | past |  |  |  |  | time |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rule** |  | Lindley Murray and the diction of smart society |  |  |  |  |  | nom rule «cognition 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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