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title: I can best display this important agreement and difference by the ac… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 59

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I can best display this important agreement and difference by the accompanying two tables, which give, in parallel columns, Miss Cox's abstracts of her tabulations, in which each incident is shortly given in technical phraseology.

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**Who acts:** I, accompanying two tables, tabulations, Cox · **What happens:** display, accompany, give, abstract, tabulate · **To what, where:** important agreement, incident, parallel columns

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, accompanying two tables, tabulations, Cox), 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:pg14241:65:59
# text = I can best display this important agreement and difference by the accompanying two tables, which give, in parallel columns, Miss Cox's abstracts of her tabulations, in which each incident is shortly given in technical phraseology.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	nsubj	_	_
4	display	display	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	agreement	agreement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	difference	difference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	accompanying	accompany	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	parallel	parallel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Cox	Cox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	abstracts	abstract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	tabulations	tabulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	obl	_	_
33	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	34	det	_	_
34	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	technical	technical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	phraseology	phraseology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **display** | can | I | this important agreement and difference |  |  |  | by the accompanying two tables | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent agreement=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **give** | present | the accompanying two tables |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | present · passive |  | each incident |  | parallel columns and Miss Cox's abstracts of Cox's tabulations |  | in technical phraseology; shortly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **abstract** |  | Cox's tabulations |  |  |  |  |  | nom abstract «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **tabulate** |  | Cox |  |  |  |  |  | nom tabulation «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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