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title: It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for compara… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, English Variants of Cinderella, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, English Variants of Cinderella, sentence 60

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It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.

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**What happens:** be, use · **To what, where:** long tabulations

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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: 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:pg14241:65:60
# text = It is practically impossible to use the long tabulations for comparative purposes without some such shorthand.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	practically	practically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	csubj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tabulations	tabulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	shorthand	shorthand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible, practically *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **use** | to-infinitive |  | the long tabulations |  |  |  | for comparative purposes; without some such shorthand | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tabulation=Theme for purpose=Eventuality |

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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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