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title: That had necessarily to contain the old favourites _Jack the Giant K… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That had necessarily to contain the old favourites _Jack the Giant Killer, Dick Whittington_, and the rest, which are often not so interesting or so well told as the less familiar ones buried in periodicals or folk-lore collections. Who acts: rest. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph 
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 45

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That had necessarily to contain the old favourites \_Jack the Giant Killer, Dick Whittington\_, and the rest, which are often not so interesting or so well told as the less familiar ones buried in periodicals or folk-lore collections.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** contain, not be, tell, bury · **To what, where:** That, familiar ones, periodicals · **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 (rest), 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:pg14241:4:45
# text = That had necessarily to contain the old favourites _Jack the Giant Killer, Dick Whittington_, and the rest, which are often not so interesting or so well told as the less familiar ones buried in periodicals or folk-lore collections.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	contain	contain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	favourites	favourite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Killer	Killer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
16	Whittington	Whittington	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
25	often	often	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
29	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
32	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	36	advmod	_	_
36	familiar	familiar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
38	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	acl	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	periodicals	periodical	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
41	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
42	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | past |  | That |  |  |  | necessarily *property* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot favourite=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **is** | present | the rest |  |  |  |  | interesting, often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as the familiar ones; well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bury** | participle |  | the familiar ones *not said here* |  | periodicals |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in periodical=Destination |

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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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