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title: Why desert that form for one which the children cannot so easily fol… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why desert that form for one which the children cannot so easily follow with "thous" and "werts" and all the artificialities of pseudo-Elizabethan? Who acts: that, children. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 40

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Why desert that form for one which the children cannot so easily follow with "thous" and "werts" and all the artificialities of pseudo-Elizabethan?

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**Who acts:** that, children · **What happens:** form, not follow

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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 (that, children), 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:pg14241:4:40
# text = Why desert that form for one which the children cannot so easily follow with "thous" and "werts" and all the artificialities of pseudo-Elizabethan?
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	thous	thou	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	werts	wert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	artificialities	artificiality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	pseudo	pseudo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Elizabethan	Elizabethan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | present | that |  |  |  |  | for one | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **follow** | can | the children |  |  |  |  | with thous and werts and all artificialities of pseudo Elizabethan; easily *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |

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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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