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title: Yet, imperfect as the chap-book versions are, they yet retain not a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, imperfect as the chap-book versions are, they yet retain not a few archaic touches. Who acts: book versions, Stories. 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 18

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Yet, imperfect as the chap-book versions are, they yet retain not a few archaic touches.

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**Who acts:** book versions, Stories · **What happens:** be, not retain · **To what, where:** few archaic touches

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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, Stories), 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:pg14241:76:18
# text = Yet, imperfect as the chap-book versions are, they yet retain not a few archaic touches.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	imperfect	imperfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	touches	touch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | the book versions |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **retain** | present | Stories *= story* | a few archaic touches |  |  | yet |  | 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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