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title: In introducing the story in his _Doctor_, the poet laureate did not… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In introducing the story in his _Doctor_, the poet laureate did not claim to do more than repeat a popular tale. Who acts: poet. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 10

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In introducing the story in his \_Doctor\_, the poet laureate did not claim to do more than repeat a popular tale.

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**Who acts:** poet · **What happens:** introduce, laureate, not claim, do, repeat · **To what, where:** story, \_, more, popular tale

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poet), 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:pg14241:53:10
# text = In introducing the story in his _Doctor_, the poet laureate did not claim to do more than repeat a popular tale.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	introducing	introduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Doctor	Doctor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	poet	poet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	laureate	laureate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	obj	_	_
20	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | gerund | the poet *not said here* | the story |  | Southey's \_ |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Patient |
| 2 | **laureate** | infinitive | the poet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | past · do-support | the poet |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the poet *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Eventuality |
| 5 | **repeat** | infinitive | the poet *not said here* | a popular tale |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Eventuality |

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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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