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title: Pity that "Goldy" did not tell the story himself, as he had probably… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Pity that "Goldy" did not tell the story himself, as he had probably heard it in Ireland, where Kennedy gives a poor version in his _Fireside Stories_. Who acts: Pity, Kennedy. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 17

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Pity that "Goldy" did not tell the story himself, as he had probably heard it in Ireland, where Kennedy gives a poor version in his \_Fireside Stories\_.

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**Who acts:** Pity, Kennedy · **What happens:** not tell, hear, give · **To what, where:** that, Goldy, Buck, Ireland, poor version, Fireside Stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Pity, Kennedy), 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:pg14241:76:17
# text = Pity that "Goldy" did not tell the story himself, as he had probably heard it in Ireland, where Kennedy gives a poor version in his _Fireside Stories_.
1	Pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
3	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Goldy	Goldy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	Kennedy	Kennedy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Fireside	fireside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	Stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | past · do-support | Pity | that | Goldy |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past · perfect | Pity | Buck |  | Ireland |  | probably *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 3 | **give** | present | Kennedy | a poor version |  | version's Fireside Stories |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent version=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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