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title: It is throughout an animal tale, the touch at the end of the shaking… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is throughout an animal tale, the touch at the end of the shaking the paws and the name Scrapefoot are too _volkstümlich_ to have been conscious variations on Southey's tale. Who acts: version, Southey. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot, with its dependen
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 9

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It is throughout an animal tale, the touch at the end of the shaking the paws and the name Scrapefoot are too \_volkstümlich\_ to have been conscious variations on Southey's tale.

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**Who acts:** version, Southey · **What happens:** be, shake, have, tell · **To what, where:** \_ volkstümlich, conscious variations, tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (version, Southey), 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:pg14241:53:9
# text = It is throughout an animal tale, the touch at the end of the shaking the paws and the name Scrapefoot are too _volkstümlich_ to have been conscious variations on Southey's tale.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	paws	paw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	volkstümlich	volkstümlich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
29	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	cop	_	_
30	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	variations	variation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	's	's	PART	POS	_	33	case	_	_
35	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | version |  |  |  | throughout a animal tale and \_ volkstümlich | the touch at the end of the shaking paws and the name *nmod* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | present | version *not said here* | \_ volkstümlich |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | version *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | participle |  | conscious variations |  | Southey's tale |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **tell** |  | Southey |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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