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title: But since the publication of _English Fairy Tales_, I have been spec… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But since the publication of _English Fairy Tales_, I have been specially fortunate in obtaining access to tales entirely new and exceptionally well told, which have been either published during the past three years or have been kindly placed at my disposal by folk-lore friends. Who acts: I, lore fr
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 46

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But since the publication of \_English Fairy Tales\_, I have been specially fortunate in obtaining access to tales entirely new and exceptionally well told, which have been either published during the past three years or have been kindly placed at my disposal by folk-lore friends.

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**Who acts:** I, lore friends · **What happens:** be, obtain, tell, publish, place · **To what, where:** access, tales, disposal, English Fairy · **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 (I, lore friends), 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:pg14241:4:46
# text = But since the publication of _English Fairy Tales_, I have been specially fortunate in obtaining access to tales entirely new and exceptionally well told, which have been either published during the past three years or have been kindly placed at my disposal by folk-lore friends.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
2	since	since	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	publication	publication	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
15	specially	specially	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	access	access	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	exceptionally	exceptionally	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	either	either	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc:preconj	_	_
33	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
34	during	during	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
41	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	43	aux:pass	_	_
42	kindly	kindly	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	disposal	disposal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  | since the publication of English Fairy  Tales | fortunate, specially *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | gerund | I *not said here* | access |  |  |  | to tales | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset access=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | exceptionally, well *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **publish** | present · perfect · passive |  | tales |  |  | year |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **place** | present · perfect · passive | lore friends |  |  | my disposal |  | kindly *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at disposal=Destination |
| 6 | **publish** |  |  | English Fairy  Tales |  |  |  |  | nom publication «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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