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title: I take this occasion to soften their ire, or perhaps give them furth… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I take this occasion to soften their ire, or perhaps give them further cause for reviling. Who acts: I. 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 9

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I take this occasion to soften their ire, or perhaps give them further cause for reviling.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** take, soften, give, cause, revile · **To what, where:** occasion, ire, critics

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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), 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:pg14241:4:9
# text = I take this occasion to soften their ire, or perhaps give them further cause for reviling.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	soften	soften	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ire	ire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	further	further	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	cause	cause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	reviling	revile	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | I | this occasion |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent occasion=Theme |
| 2 | **soften** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | critics's ire |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ire=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  | critics *= critic* |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **cause** | present | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 5 | **revile** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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