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title: And more important still, it is a touch which vitalises the other va… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And more important still, it is a touch which vitalises the other variants in which the helpful animal is rather dragged in by the horns. Who acts: touch. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# More English Fairy Tales, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin., sentence 67

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And more important still, it is a touch which vitalises the other variants in which the helpful animal is rather dragged in by the horns.

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**Who acts:** touch · **What happens:** be, vitalise, drag in · **To what, where:** touch, other variants, helpful animal

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Macleod. Campbell. Sinclair. Curtin.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (touch), 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:pg14241:66:67
# text = And more important still, it is a touch which vitalises the other variants in which the helpful animal is rather dragged in by the horns.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	important	important	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	vitalises	vitalise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	helpful	helpful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | touch | a touch |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **vitalise** | present | a touch | the other variants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drag in** | present · passive |  | the helpful animal |  | the other variants |  | by the horns | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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