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title: _--I have endeavoured to show, _l.c. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--I have endeavoured to show, _l.c. Who acts: I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 12

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\_--I have endeavoured to show, \_l.c.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** endeavour, show · **To what, where:** l.c

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg14241:56:12
# text = _--I have endeavoured to show, _l.c.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **endeavour** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | l.c |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent l.c=Recipient |

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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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