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title: I must refer to his admirable Introduction for the ingenious line of… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I must refer to his admirable Introduction for the ingenious line of reasoning on which he bases these conclusions. Who acts: I, ingenious line, Gomme. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 20

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I must refer to his admirable Introduction for the ingenious line of reasoning on which he bases these conclusions.

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**Who acts:** I, ingenious line, Gomme · **What happens:** refer, reason, base, introduce · **To what, where:** conclusions

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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 (I, ingenious line, Gomme), 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:pg14241:43:20
# text = I must refer to his admirable Introduction for the ingenious line of reasoning on which he bases these conclusions.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	refer	refer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	admirable	admirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Introduction	introduction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	reasoning	reason	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bases	base	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	ccomp	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	conclusions	conclusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | must | I |  |  |  |  | to Gomme's admirable Introduction for the ingenious line | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to introduction=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **reason** | gerund | the ingenious line *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **base** | present | Gomme | this conclusions |  |  |  |  | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent conclusion=Theme on which=Source |
| 4 | **introduce** |  | Gomme |  |  |  |  | for the ingenious line | nom introduction «act transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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