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title: The conception of the moon as a beneficent being, the natural enemy… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The conception of the moon as a beneficent being, the natural enemy of the bogles and other dwellers of the dark, is natural enough, but scarcely occurs, so far as I recollect, in other mythological systems. Who acts: conception, I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVI. th
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVI. the Buried Moon, sentence 7

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The conception of the moon as a beneficent being, the natural enemy of the bogles and other dwellers of the dark, is natural enough, but scarcely occurs, so far as I recollect, in other mythological systems.

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**Who acts:** conception, I · **What happens:** be, occur, recollect, conceive · **To what, where:** beneficent natural enemy, other mythological systems, moon

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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 (conception, 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:pg14241:57:7
# text = The conception of the moon as a beneficent being, the natural enemy of the bogles and other dwellers of the dark, is natural enough, but scarcely occurs, so far as I recollect, in other mythological systems.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	conception	conception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
8	beneficent	beneficent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	bogles	bogle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	dwellers	dweller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
26	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	recollect	recollect	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	mythological	mythological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	systems	system	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund |  | a beneficent natural enemy |  |  |  | of the bogles and other dwellers of the dark | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the conception of the moon |  |  |  |  | enough, natural *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **occur** | present | the conception of the moon *not said here* |  |  | other mythological systems |  | far, scarcely *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in system=Location |
| 4 | **recollect** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **conceive** |  |  | the moon |  |  |  |  | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=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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