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title: _--The tale is scarcely a good example for Mr. Hindes Groome's conte… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The tale is scarcely a good example for Mr. Hindes Groome's contention (in _Transactions Folk-Lore Congress_) for the diffusion of all folk-tales by means of gypsies as _colporteurs_. Who acts: tale, Hindes. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England, wit
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXI. the King of England, sentence 9

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\_--The tale is scarcely a good example for Mr. Hindes Groome's contention (in \_Transactions Folk-Lore Congress\_) for the diffusion of all folk-tales by means of gypsies as \_colporteurs\_.

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**Who acts:** tale, Hindes · **What happens:** be, mean, contend, diffuse · **To what, where:** good example, folk tales

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXI. the King of England. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale, Hindes), 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:pg14241:62:9
# text = _--The tale is scarcely a good example for Mr. Hindes Groome's contention (in _Transactions Folk-Lore Congress_) for the diffusion of all folk-tales by means of gypsies as _colporteurs_.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Hindes	Hindes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Groome	Groome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
15	contention	contention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Transactions	Transaction	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
20	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	Congress	Congress	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
31	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	gypsies	gypsy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	colporteurs	colporteur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the tale | a good example |  |  |  | for Hindes  Mr.'s contention for the diffusion of all folk tales; scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of gypsies as \_ colporteurs | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **contend** |  | Hindes  Mr. |  |  |  |  | for the diffusion of all folk tales | nom contention «communication intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 4 | **diffuse** |  |  | all folk tales |  |  |  |  | nom diffusion «process 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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