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title: _--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character, and yet collected within the last ten years from one of the English peasantry. Who acts: tale. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. the Buried Moon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 6

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\_--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character, and yet collected within the last ten years from one of the English peasantry.

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**Who acts:** tale · **What happens:** be, collect · **To what, where:** character

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. the Buried Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale), 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:pg14241:57:6
# text = _--The tale is noteworthy as being distinctly mythical in character, and yet collected within the last ten years from one of the English peasantry.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	noteworthy	noteworthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	cop	_	_
9	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	mythical	mythical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tale |  |  |  |  | noteworthy *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the tale *not said here* |  |  | character |  | distinctly, mythical *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **collect** | participle |  |  |  |  | yet; year |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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