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title: _--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the folk, a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the folk, and various touches throughout indicate a transmission through minds tainted with culture and introspection. Who acts: sell, various touches. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, wit
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 8

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\_--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the folk, and various touches throughout indicate a transmission through minds tainted with culture and introspection.

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**Who acts:** sell, various touches · **What happens:** be, indicate, taint · **To what, where:** transmission, minds

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sell, various touches), 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:pg14241:69:8
# text = _--The "sell" at the end is scarcely after the manner of the folk, and various touches throughout indicate a transmission through minds tainted with culture and introspection.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	sell	sell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
11	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
22	throughout	throughout	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	transmission	transmission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	minds	mind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	tainted	taint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	culture	culture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	introspection	introspection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the sell at the end |  |  |  | after the manner | of the folk; scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **indicate** | infinitive | various touches | a transmission |  | minds |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot transmission=Topic |
| 3 | **taint** | participle |  | minds *not said here* |  |  |  | with culture and introspection | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with culture=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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