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title: The Noodle family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, whi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Noodle family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, which would seem to confirm Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark. Who acts: English folk tales, Carlyle. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains, sentence 8

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The Noodle family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, which would seem to confirm Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark.

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**Who acts:** English folk tales, Carlyle · **What happens:** represent, seem, confirm, celebrate, remark · **To what, where:** Noodle family, celebrated statistical remark

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXX. a Pottle O' Brains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (English folk tales, Carlyle), 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:pg14241:61:8
# text = The Noodle family is strongly represented in English folk-tales, which would seem to confirm Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Noodle	Noodle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	seem	seem	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	Carlyle	Carlyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
21	statistical	statistical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	remark	remark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present · passive |  | the Noodle family |  |  |  | in English folk tales; strongly *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in tale=Attribute |
| 2 | **seem** | would | English folk tales |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **confirm** | to-infinitive | English folk tales *not said here* | Carlyle's celebrated statistical remark |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot remark=Topic |
| 4 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **remark** |  | Carlyle |  |  |  |  |  | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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