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title: I have taken English tales wherever I could find them, one from the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have taken English tales wherever I could find them, one from the United States, some from the Lowland Scotch, and a few have been adapted from ballads, while I have left a couple in their original metrical form. Who acts: I, Tales. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. 
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 6

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I have taken English tales wherever I could find them, one from the United States, some from the Lowland Scotch, and a few have been adapted from ballads, while I have left a couple in their original metrical form.

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**Who acts:** I, Tales · **What happens:** take, find, adapt, leave, form · **To what, where:** English tales, Tales, few, ballads, couple, original metrical form

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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, Tales), 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:pg14241:4:6
# text = I have taken English tales wherever I could find them, one from the United States, some from the Lowland Scotch, and a few have been adapted from ballads, while I have left a couple in their original metrical form.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	United	United	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	States	State	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	couple	couple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
41	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present · perfect | I | English tales |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | could | I | Tales *= tale* |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 3 | **adapt** | present · perfect · passive |  | a few |  | ballads |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **leave** | present · perfect | I | a couple |  | Tales's original metrical form |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent couple=Theme in form=Location |
| 5 | **form** |  | Tales *= tale* |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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