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title: It is practically a prose variant of _King Cophetua and the Beggar M… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is practically a prose variant of _King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid_, and is thus an instance of the folk-novel pure and simple, without any admixture of those unnatural incidents which transform the folk-novel into the serious folk-tale as we are accustomed to have it. Who acts: pipe, unnatural
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 10

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It is practically a prose variant of \_King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid\_, and is thus an instance of the folk-novel pure and simple, without any admixture of those unnatural incidents which transform the folk-novel into the serious folk-tale as we are accustomed to have it.

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**Who acts:** pipe, unnatural incidents · **What happens:** be, transform, accustom, have, admix · **To what, where:** prose variant, instance, folk novel, serious folk tale, we, pipe

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pipe, unnatural incidents), 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:pg14241:47:10
# text = It is practically a prose variant of _King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid_, and is thus an instance of the folk-novel pure and simple, without any admixture of those unnatural incidents which transform the folk-novel into the serious folk-tale as we are accustomed to have it.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	prose	prose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	Cophetua	Cophetua	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Beggar	Beggar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Maid	Maid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	without	without	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
33	admixture	admixture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
36	unnatural	unnatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
38	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	transform	transform	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	novel	novel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
44	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
46	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
47	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
51	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
52	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	53	xcomp	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | pipe | a prose variant and any admixture of that unnatural incidents |  |  |  | of Cophetua  \_ King and the Beggar Maid; practically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | present |  | a instance |  |  |  | of the folk novel; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **transform** | present | that unnatural incidents | the folk novel |  |  |  | into the serious folk tale *result* | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent novel=Patient into tale=Result |
| 4 | **accustom** | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | to-infinitive |  | pipe |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **admix** |  |  | that unnatural incidents |  |  |  |  | nom admixture «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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