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title: Well, quite apart from memories of my old nurse, we have a certain n… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, quite apart from memories of my old nurse, we have a certain number of tales actually taken down from the mouths of the people, and these are by no means in Authorised form; they even trench on the "vulgar"--_i.e._, the archaic. Who acts: we, no, Tales, these. A sentence of «More English Fairy
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 37

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Well, quite apart from memories of my old nurse, we have a certain number of tales actually taken down from the mouths of the people, and these are by no means in Authorised form; they even trench on the "vulgar"--\_i.e.\_, the archaic.

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**Who acts:** we, no, Tales, these · **What happens:** have, take down, mean, authorise, trench, be · **To what, where:** certain number, tales, mouths, vulgar

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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 (we, no, Tales, these), 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:pg14241:4:37
# text = Well, quite apart from memories of my old nurse, we have a certain number of tales actually taken down from the mouths of the people, and these are by no means in Authorised form; they even trench on the "vulgar"--_i.e._, the archaic.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	13	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	memories	memory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
30	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	nsubj	_	_
34	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Authorised	authorise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	even	even	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	trench	trench	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	parataxis	_	_
42	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	vulgar	vulgar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | we | a certain number of tales |  |  |  | apart *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Patient |
| 2 | **take down** | participle |  | tales *not said here* |  | the mouths of the people |  | actually *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mean** | present | no |  |  |  |  | in Authorised form | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in form=Attribute |
| 4 | **authorise** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **trench** | present | Tales *= tale* |  |  | the vulgar |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is** | present | these |  |  |  |  | archaic, i.e. *property* | tree rules |

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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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