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title: It is characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss of honour, the English climax being loss of fortune. Who acts: East, German version, English climax. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVII. News!, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXVII. News!, sentence 12

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It is characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss of honour, the English climax being loss of fortune.

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**Who acts:** East, German version, English climax · **What happens:** be, finish up · **To what, where:** characteristic, loss

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVII. News!. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (East, German version, English climax), 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:pg14241:70:12
# text = It is characteristic that the German version finishes up with a loss of honour, the English climax being loss of fortune.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	German	German	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	finishes	finish	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	climax	climax	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 a** | present | East | characteristic |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **finish up** | present | the German version |  |  |  |  | with a loss of honour and loss | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with loss=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **is a** | gerund | the English climax | loss |  |  |  | of fortune | 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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