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title: Mr. Gomme, however, adds that the cartwheel "plays a not unimportant… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Gomme, however, adds that the cartwheel "plays a not unimportant part in English folk-lore as a representative of old runic faith" (Villon Soc. edition, p. xv.). Who acts: Gomme, cartwheel. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift, with its dependency tree 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 10

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Mr. Gomme, however, adds that the cartwheel "plays a not unimportant part in English folk-lore as a representative of old runic faith" (Villon Soc. edition, p. xv.).

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**Who acts:** Gomme, cartwheel · **What happens:** add, play · **To what, where:** unimportant part, English folk lore · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gomme, cartwheel), 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:pg14241:43:10
# text = Mr. Gomme, however, adds that the cartwheel "plays a not unimportant part in English folk-lore as a representative of old runic faith" (Villon Soc. edition, p. xv.).
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Gomme	Gomme	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cartwheel	cartwheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	plays	play	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	unimportant	unimportant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	representative	representative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	runic	runic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Villon	Villon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Soc	Soc	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
33	edition	edition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	xv	xv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | Gomme  Mr. |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **play** *in a quote* | present | the cartwheel | a unimportant part |  | English folk lore |  | as a representative of old runic faith | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme |

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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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