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title: I would merely remark on this that there are only very slight traces… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I would merely remark on this that there are only very slight traces of the story in these islands nowadays, while it abounds in Italy, which possesses one almost perfect version of the formula (Miss Cox, No. 142, from Sardinia). Who acts: I, slight traces, most. A sentence of «More English Fairy Ta
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 26

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I would merely remark on this that there are only very slight traces of the story in these islands nowadays, while it abounds in Italy, which possesses one almost perfect version of the formula (Miss Cox, No. 142, from Sardinia).

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**Who acts:** I, slight traces, most · **What happens:** remark, be, abound, possess · **To what, where:** this, Italy, one perfect version

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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 (I, slight traces, 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:pg14241:76:26
# text = I would merely remark on this that there are only very slight traces of the story in these islands nowadays, while it abounds in Italy, which possesses one almost perfect version of the formula (Miss Cox, No. 142, from Sardinia).
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	remark	remark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	nowadays	nowadays	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	abounds	abound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	possesses	possess	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
31	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	formula	formula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
39	Cox	Cox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	142	142	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	41	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Sardinia	Sardinia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | would | I |  |  | this |  | merely *property* | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **does** | present | slight traces of the story in this islands |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **abound** | present | most |  |  | Italy |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in italy=Location |
| 4 | **possess** | present |  | one perfect version of the formula |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot 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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