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title: _--All countries have their special crop of fools, Boeotians among t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--All countries have their special crop of fools, Boeotians among the Greeks, the people of Hums among the Persians (how appropriate!), the Schildburgers in Germany, and so on. Who acts: countries. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, with its depen
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXVI. Wise Men of Gotham, sentence 9

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\_--All countries have their special crop of fools, Boeotians among the Greeks, the people of Hums among the Persians (how appropriate!), the Schildburgers in Germany, and so on.

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**Who acts:** countries · **What happens:** have · **To what, where:** special crop

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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 (countries), 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:pg14241:79:9
# text = _--All countries have their special crop of fools, Boeotians among the Greeks, the people of Hums among the Persians (how appropriate!), the Schildburgers in Germany, and so on.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	crop	crop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fools	fool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Boeotians	Boeotian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Greeks	Greek	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Hums	hum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	among	among	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Persians	Persian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
26	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Schildburgers	schildburger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Germany	Germany	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **have** | present | all countries | countries's special crop of fools  Boeotians and the Greeks |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=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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