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title: From former experience, I find that each of these principles has met… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From former experience, I find that each of these principles has met with some dissent from critics who have written from the high and lofty standpoint of folk-lore, or from the lowlier vantage of "mere literature." Who acts: I, each. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Ætat. 
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# More English Fairy Tales, Ætat. XIII, sentence 8

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From former experience, I find that each of these principles has met with some dissent from critics who have written from the high and lofty standpoint of folk-lore, or from the lowlier vantage of "mere literature."

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**Who acts:** I, each · **What happens:** find, meet, write · **To what, where:** former experience, critics, high standpoint · **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, each), 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:pg14241:4:8
# text = From former experience, I find that each of these principles has met with some dissent from critics who have written from the high and lofty standpoint of folk-lore, or from the lowlier vantage of "mere literature."
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	experience	experience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	principles	principle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	ccomp	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	dissent	dissent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	critics	critic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	standpoint	standpoint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	lowlier	lowly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	vantage	vantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	literature	literature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | I |  |  | former experience |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | present · perfect | each |  |  |  |  | with some dissent; from critics | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with dissent=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **write** | present · perfect · passive |  | critics |  | the high standpoint of folk lore or the lowlier vantage of mere literature |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from standpoint=Material |

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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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