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title: Mr. Lang has honoured me with a rejoinder, which I regard as a palin… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Mr. Lang has honoured me with a rejoinder, which I regard as a palinode, in his Preface to Miss Roalfe Cox's volume of variants of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892).] Who acts: I, Lang, Cinderella. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs., with its dependency tr
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# More English Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs., sentence 2

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Mr. Lang has honoured me with a rejoinder, which I regard as a palinode, in his Preface to Miss Roalfe Cox's volume of variants of \_Cinderella\_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892).\]

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**Who acts:** I, Lang, Cinderella · **What happens:** honour, regard, preface, vary · **To what, where:** Lang, rejoinder

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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 (I, Lang, Cinderella), 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:pg14241:5:2
# text = Mr. Lang has honoured me with a rejoinder, which I regard as a palinode, in his Preface to Miss Roalfe Cox's volume of variants of _Cinderella_ (Folk-Lore Society, 1892).]
1	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod:desc	_	_
2	Lang	Lang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	honoured	honour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	rejoinder	rejoinder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	obj	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	regard	regard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	palinode	palinode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	Roalfe	Roalfe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	Cox	Cox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Cinderella	Cinderella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	Society	Society	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	1892	1892	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	36	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **honour** | present · perfect · passive |  | Lang  Mr. |  |  |  | with a rejoinder | tree rules |
| 2 | **regard** | present | I | a rejoinder |  |  |  | as a palinode | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent which=Theme as palinode=Value |
| 3 | **preface** |  | Lang |  |  |  |  | to Miss | nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
| 4 | **vary** |  | Cinderella |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event 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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