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title: Yet till lately the mill stood to prove if the narrator lied, and ev… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet till lately the mill stood to prove if the narrator lied, and every circumstance of local particularity seemed to vouch for the autochthonous character of the myth. Who acts: mill, narrator, circumstance. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant, with its
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 11

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Yet till lately the mill stood to prove if the narrator lied, and every circumstance of local particularity seemed to vouch for the autochthonous character of the myth.

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**Who acts:** mill, narrator, circumstance · **What happens:** stand, prove, lie, seem, vouch

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mill, narrator, circumstance), 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:pg14241:52:11
# text = Yet till lately the mill stood to prove if the narrator lied, and every circumstance of local particularity seemed to vouch for the autochthonous character of the myth.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mill	mill	NOUN	NN	_	6	nsubj	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	narrator	narrator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lied	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	particularity	particularity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	vouch	vouch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	autochthonous	autochthonous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the mill |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | the mill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **lie** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the narrator |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **seem** | past | every circumstance of local particularity |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **vouch** | to-infinitive | every circumstance of local particularity *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the autochthonous character of the myth | tree rules |

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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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