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title: Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird and fantastic as E.A. Who acts: we, tale. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIV. King O' Cats, sentence 13

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Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird and fantastic as E.A.

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**Who acts:** we, tale · **What happens:** imagine, be · **To what, where:** more, way

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, tale), 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:pg14241:67:13
# text = Here again we can scarcely imagine more than a single origin for the tale which is, in its way, as weird and fantastic as E.A.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	imagine	imagine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	weird	weird	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	fantastic	fantastic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	E.A	E.A	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **imagine** | can | we | more |  |  | again | scarcely *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the tale |  |  | tale's way |  |  | 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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