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description: Among these, the tales reported by Mrs. Balfour, with a thorough knowledge of the peasants' mind and mode of speech, are a veritable acquisition. Who acts: peasants. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. XIII, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 47

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Among these, the tales reported by Mrs. Balfour, with a thorough knowledge of the peasants' mind and mode of speech, are a veritable acquisition.

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**Who acts:** peasants · **What happens:** report, be, mind · **To what, where:** tales, veritable acquisition

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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 (peasants), 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:pg14241:4:47
# text = Among these, the tales reported by Mrs. Balfour, with a thorough knowledge of the peasants' mind and mode of speech, are a veritable acquisition.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
6	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	thorough	thorough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	peasants	peasant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
25	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	veritable	veritable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	acquisition	acquisition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **report** | participle |  | the tales *not said here* |  |  |  | by Mrs. | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a veritable acquisition |  |  |  | among the tales | tree rules |
| 3 | **mind** |  | the peasants |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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