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description: To take our own tales here in England, there is not a single instance of a reference to _Jack and the Beanstalk_ for the last three hundred years, yet it is undoubtedly a true folk-tale. Who acts: single instance, instance, our. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted 
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24, sentence 83

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To take our own tales here in England, there is not a single instance of a reference to \_Jack and the Beanstalk\_ for the last three hundred years, yet it is undoubtedly a true folk-tale.

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**Who acts:** single instance, instance, our · **What happens:** take, be, tell, instance · **To what, where:** own tales, true folk tale, reference · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single instance, instance, our), 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:pg7128:30:83
# text = To take our own tales here in England, there is not a single instance of a reference to _Jack and the Beanstalk_ for the last three hundred years, yet it is undoubtedly a true folk-tale.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
3	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	reference	reference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Beanstalk	Beanstalk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	compound	_	_
30	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	nummod	_	_
31	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
33	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
36	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | to-infinitive | a single instance of a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk *not said here* | our own tales |  | here |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | present | a single instance of a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | present | instance | a true folk tale |  |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **tell** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **instance** |  |  | a reference to Jack and the Beanstalk |  |  |  |  | nom instance «event 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:** «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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