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title: [Footnote 1: See "The Science of Folk Tales and the Problem of Diffu… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 1

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\[Footnote 1: See "The Science of Folk Tales and the Problem of Diffusion" in \_Transactions of the International Folk-Lore Congress\_, 1891.

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**Who acts:** International Lore Congress · **What happens:** see, transact · **To what, where:** Science, Transactions

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (International Lore Congress), 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:pg14241:5:1
# text = [Footnote 1: See "The Science of Folk Tales and the Problem of Diffusion" in _Transactions of the International Folk-Lore Congress_, 1891.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	See	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	appos	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Science	Science	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Problem	Problem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Diffusion	Diffusion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Transactions	transaction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
23	International	International	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
24	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	1891	1891	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | infinitive |  | the Science of Folk Tales and the Problem of Diffusion |  | Transactions of the International Lore Congress |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer science=Stimulus |
| 2 | **transact** |  | the International Lore Congress |  |  |  |  |  | nom transaction «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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