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title: The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a hig… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a high level of artistic merit. Who acts: subtle characterisation. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVII. the Wee Bannock, sentence 13

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The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a high level of artistic merit.

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**Who acts:** subtle characterisation · **What happens:** reach, characterise · **To what, where:** high level, various occupations

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVII. the Wee Bannock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (subtle characterisation), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:2011`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:48:13
# text = The subtle characterisation of the various occupations reaches a high level of artistic merit.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	subtle	subtle	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	characterisation	characterisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	occupations	occupation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	reaches	reach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	artistic	artistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	merit	merit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | present | the subtle characterisation of the various occupations | a high level of artistic merit |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent level=Theme |
| 2 | **characterise** |  |  | the various occupations |  |  |  |  | nom characterisation «communication 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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