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title: I have rewritten most of them, and in doing so have adopted the trad… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have rewritten most of them, and in doing so have adopted the traditional English style of folk-telling, with its "Wells" and "Lawkamercy" and archaic touches, which are known nowadays as vulgarisms. Who acts: I, doing, traditional English style. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph 
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 7

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I have rewritten most of them, and in doing so have adopted the traditional English style of folk-telling, with its "Wells" and "Lawkamercy" and archaic touches, which are known nowadays as vulgarisms.

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**Who acts:** I, doing, traditional English style · **What happens:** rewrite, do, adopt, tell, know · **To what, where:** most, traditional English style, Wells, archaic touches · **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, doing, traditional English style), 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:pg14241:4:7
# text = I have rewritten most of them, and in doing so have adopted the traditional English style of folk-telling, with its "Wells" and "Lawkamercy" and archaic touches, which are known nowadays as vulgarisms.
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	rewritten	rewrite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	csubj:pass	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Wells	Wells	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Lawkamercy	Lawkamercy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl:relcl	_	_
39	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	vulgarisms	vulgarism	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rewrite** | present · perfect | I | most of Tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **adopt** | infinitive · perfect | doing | the traditional English style |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent style=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | the traditional English style *not said here* |  | style's Wells |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wells=Recipient |
| 5 | **know** | present · passive |  | archaic touches |  |  |  | as vulgarisms; nowadays *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus as vulgarism=Attribute |

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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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