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description: _), he is inclined to think, from the evidence of the hero-tales which have the unsavoury _motif_ of the Unnatural Father, that the original home of the story was England, where most of the hero-tales locate the incident. Who acts: hero tales, original home, most. A sentence of «More English Fairy T
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 25

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\_), he is inclined to think, from the evidence of the hero-tales which have the unsavoury \_motif\_ of the Unnatural Father, that the original home of the story was England, where most of the hero-tales locate the incident.

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**Who acts:** hero tales, original home, most · **What happens:** incline, think, have, be, locate, evidence · **To what, where:** Mr., evidence, unsavoury motif, England, incident, hero tales

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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 (hero tales, original home, most), 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:pg14241:76:25
# text = _), he is inclined to think, from the evidence of the hero-tales which have the unsavoury _motif_ of the Unnatural Father, that the original home of the story was England, where most of the hero-tales locate the incident.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	inclined	incline	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	evidence	evidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	unsavoury	unsavoury	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	motif	motif	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	28	punct	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Unnatural	Unnatural	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
40	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	47	advmod	_	_
41	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	47	nsubj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
44	hero	hero	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nmod	_	_
47	locate	locate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **incline** | present · passive |  | Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the evidence of the hero tales |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | present | the hero tales | the unsavoury motif |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motif=Patient |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the original home of the story | England |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **locate** | present | most of the hero tales | the incident |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **evidence** |  |  | the hero tales |  |  |  |  | nom evidence «cognition transitive»: of=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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