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title: The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the Grimms'… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the Grimms' _Spinners_. Who acts: latter part. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab, sentence 7

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The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the Grimms' \_Spinners\_.

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**Who acts:** latter part · **What happens:** be, compare

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXI. Habetrot and Scantlie Mab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter part), 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:pg14241:74:7
# text = The latter part is more novel, and is best compared with the Grimms' _Spinners_.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	novel	novel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Grimms	Grimm	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Spinners	spinner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the latter part |  |  |  |  | novel *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compare** | present · passive | the latter part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Grimms Spinners; well *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V PP»: with spinner=Co-Patient |

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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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