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title: The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included it… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included it in this volume, though it is little more than an anecdote in its present shape. Who acts: incident, I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXI. the Blinded Giant, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXI. the Blinded Giant, sentence 12

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The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included it in this volume, though it is little more than an anecdote in its present shape.

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**Who acts:** incident, I · **What happens:** be, include · **To what, where:** instructive one, incident, volume

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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 (incident, I), 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:pg14241:52:12
# text = The incident is an instructive one, and I have therefore included it in this volume, though it is little more than an anecdote in its present shape.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	instructive	instructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	included	include	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
23	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	anecdote	anecdote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	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 | **is a** | present | the incident | a instructive one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **include** | present · perfect | I | incident |  |  |  | in this volume *goal*; therefore *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent it=Theme in volume=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | present | incident |  |  |  |  | than a anecdote in incident's present shape; little *obl:unmarked*; more *property* | 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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