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title: From one of these I am in the fortunate position of giving the names… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From one of these I am in the fortunate position of giving the names of the _dramatis personæ_ of this domestic tragedy. Who acts: one, fortunate position. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 9

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From one of these I am in the fortunate position of giving the names of the \_dramatis personæ\_ of this domestic tragedy.

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**Who acts:** one, fortunate position · **What happens:** be, give, name · **To what, where:** fortunate position, names, dramatis

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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 (one, fortunate position), 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:pg14241:59:9
# text = From one of these I am in the fortunate position of giving the names of the _dramatis personæ_ of this domestic tragedy.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fortunate	fortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	giving	give	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	dramatis	dramatis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	personæ	personæ	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
23	domestic	domestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tragedy	tragedy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | one of these |  |  | the fortunate position |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | gerund | the fortunate position *not said here* | the names of the dramatis personæ \_ of this domestic tragedy |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  |  | the dramatis personæ \_ of this domestic tragedy |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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