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title: This "Not counting self" is in the _Gooroo Paramastan_, the cheeses… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This "Not counting self" is in the _Gooroo Paramastan_, the cheeses "one after another" in M. Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on. Who acts: counting self. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 12

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This "Not counting self" is in the \_Gooroo Paramastan\_, the cheeses "one after another" in M. Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on.

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**Who acts:** counting self · **What happens:** not count, be · **To what, where:** Gooroo

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counting self), 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:pg14241:79:12
# text = This "Not counting self" is in the _Gooroo Paramastan_, the cheeses "one after another" in M. Rivière's collection of Kabyle tales, and so on.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
2	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	counting	count	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Gooroo	Gooroo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	Paramastan	Paramastan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cheeses	cheese	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	appos	_	_
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	appos	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	M.	M.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Rivière	Rivière	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
26	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Kabyle	Kabyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	on	on	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **count** *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | this counting self |  |  | the Gooroo |  |  | 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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