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title: But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was ori… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was originally a monkish invention and came thence among the folk. Who acts: theological basis, basis. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 11

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But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was originally a monkish invention and came thence among the folk.

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**Who acts:** theological basis, basis · **What happens:** show, be, come · **To what, where:** monkish invention, folk

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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 (theological basis, basis), 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:pg14241:58:11
# text = But the theological basis of the story shows clearly that it was originally a monkish invention and came thence among the folk.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	theological	theological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	basis	basis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	shows	show	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	clearly	clearly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	monkish	monkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
19	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	among	among	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | the theological basis of the story |  |  |  |  | clearly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | basis | a monkish invention |  |  |  | originally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | basis *not said here* |  |  | the folk |  | thence *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among folk=Location |

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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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