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title: Of these the chap-book versions contain scarcely anything of the ope… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Of these the chap-book versions contain scarcely anything of the opening _motifs_. Who acts: book versions. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 12

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Of these the chap-book versions contain scarcely anything of the opening \_motifs\_.

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**Who acts:** book versions · **What happens:** contain · **To what, where:** anything

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (book versions), 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:pg14241:76:12
# text = Of these the chap-book versions contain scarcely anything of the opening _motifs_.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	opening	opening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	motifs	motif	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **contain** | present | this book versions | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot anything=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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