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title: Under any circumstances no English child's library of folk-tales can… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Under any circumstances no English child's library of folk-tales can be considered complete that does not present a version of Mr. Hickathrift's exploits. Who acts: that. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 21

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Under any circumstances no English child's library of folk-tales can be considered complete that does not present a version of Mr. Hickathrift's exploits.

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**Who acts:** that · **What happens:** consider, not present · **To what, where:** library, circumstances, version

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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 (that), 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:pg14241:43:21
# text = Under any circumstances no English child's library of folk-tales can be considered complete that does not present a version of Mr. Hickathrift's exploits.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	library	library	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	complete	complete	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	's	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	exploits	exploit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | can · passive |  | no English child's library of folk tales |  | any circumstances |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **present** | present · do-support | that | a version of Hickathrift  Mr.'s exploits |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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