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title: Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and at first sight it might seem that we had found still extant among the folk the story that had been the original of Jacques de Vitry's _Exemplum_. Who acts: it, we, story. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 10

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Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and at first sight it might seem that we had found still extant among the folk the story that had been the original of Jacques de Vitry's \_Exemplum\_.

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**Who acts:** it, we, story · **What happens:** derive, seem, find, be · **To what, where:** monks, folk, sight, original

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, we, story), 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:pg14241:58:10
# text = Often they must have been derived from the folk of the period, and at first sight it might seem that we had found still extant among the folk the story that had been the original of Jacques de Vitry's _Exemplum_.
1	Often	often	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	ccomp	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	extant	extant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	_
27	among	among	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
34	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	36	cop	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	acl:relcl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Jacques	Jacques	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
39	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	_
40	Vitry	Vitry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	's	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	Exemplum	Exemplum	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | must · perfect · passive |  | monks *= monk* |  | the folk of the period |  | often *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: subject=Result from folk=Material |
| 2 | **seem** | might | it |  |  | sight |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **find** | past · perfect | we |  |  |  |  | among the folk; extant *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past · perfect | the story | the original |  |  |  | of Jacques and Vitry's \_ | tree rules |

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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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