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title: _--How _The Valiant Tailor_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell, though… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--How _The Valiant Tailor_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell, though the resemblance is close enough to suggest a direct "lifting" from some English version of Grimm's _Goblins_. Who acts: Valiant Tailor _, resemblance. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVIII. Johnny Gloke, w
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVIII. Johnny Gloke, sentence 10

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\_--How \_The Valiant Tailor\_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell, though the resemblance is close enough to suggest a direct "lifting" from some English version of Grimm's \_Goblins\_.

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**Who acts:** Valiant Tailor \_, resemblance · **What happens:** get, not tell, be, suggest · **To what, where:** Aberdeen one, English version, direct lifting · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVIII. Johnny Gloke. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Valiant Tailor \_, resemblance), 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:pg14241:49:10
# text = _--How _The Valiant Tailor_ got to Aberdeen one cannot tell, though the resemblance is close enough to suggest a direct "lifting" from some English version of Grimm's _Goblins_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	Valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Tailor	Tailor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	Aberdeen	aberdeen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	suggest	suggest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	direct	direct	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	lifting	lifting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	det	_	_
32	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Goblins	Goblins	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Valiant Tailor \_ |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can |  |  | Aberdeen one | some English version of Grimm's \_ |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the resemblance |  |  |  |  | close, enough *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | to-infinitive | the resemblance *not said here* | a direct lifting |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lifting=Topic |

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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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