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title: I have not, however, included too many stories of the Grimm types, l… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have not, however, included too many stories of the Grimm types, lest I should repeat the contents of the two preceding volumes of this series. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Joseph Jacobs, sentence 37

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I have not, however, included too many stories of the Grimm types, lest I should repeat the contents of the two preceding volumes of this series.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** not have, include, repeat, precede · **To what, where:** many stories, contents

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg7128:3:37
# text = I have not, however, included too many stories of the Grimm types, lest I should repeat the contents of the two preceding volumes of this series.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	included	include	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	types	type	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	repeat	repeat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	contents	contents	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
25	preceding	precede	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	volumes	volume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	series	series	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **have** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **include** | past | I *not said here* | many stories of the Grimm types |  |  |  | however *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme |
| 3 | **repeat** | should | I | the contents of the two preceding volumes of this series |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Eventuality |
| 4 | **precede** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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