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title: _--_Tattercoats_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy"… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--_Tattercoats_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element. Who acts: Tattercoats, pipe. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats, with 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 9

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\_--\_Tattercoats\_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element.

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**Who acts:** Tattercoats, pipe · **What happens:** be, consider, give · **To what, where:** magic pipe, tale

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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 (Tattercoats, pipe), 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:pg14241:47:9
# text = _--_Tattercoats_ is of interest chiefly as being without any "fairy" or supernatural elements, unless the magic pipe can be so considered; it certainly gives the tale a fairy-like element.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Tattercoats	Tattercoats	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	chiefly	chiefly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	cop	_	_
12	without	without	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	supernatural	supernatural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	elements	element	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
21	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	considered	consider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
36	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **is** | present | Tattercoats |  |  |  |  | of interest; chiefly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | gerund | Tattercoats *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without any fairy or supernatural elements | tree rules |
| 3 | **consider** | can · passive |  | the magic pipe |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **give** | present | pipe | the tale |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient element=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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