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title: _Remarks_.--The only "fairy" touch--but what a touch!--the pall of l… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--The only "fairy" touch--but what a touch!--the pall of leaves collected by the robins. Who acts: fairy touch. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 15

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\_Remarks\_.--The only "fairy" touch--but what a touch!--the pall of leaves collected by the robins.

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**Who acts:** fairy touch · **What happens:** touch, collect, pall · **To what, where:** leaves

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy touch), 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:pg14241:59:15
# text = _Remarks_.--The only "fairy" touch--but what a touch!--the pall of leaves collected by the robins.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	15	nsubj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pall	pall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	robins	robin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** |  | fairy touch and the pall of leaves |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | participle |  | leaves *not said here* |  |  |  | by the robins | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pall** |  |  | leaves |  |  |  |  | nom pall «feeling 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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