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title: If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk. Who acts: book. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie, sentence 6

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If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk.

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**Who acts:** book · **What happens:** use, speak, re-introduce · **To what, where:** book, this · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIII. Rushen Coatie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book), 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:pg14241:64:6
# text = If this book becomes generally used among English-speaking peoples, it may possibly re-introduce this and other tales among the folk.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
7	among	among	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	re-introduce	re-introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | this book |  |  |  | among speaking peoples; generally *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **re-introduce** | may | book | this |  |  |  | possibly *property* | tree rules |

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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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