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title: We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of f… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies. Who acts: We, few. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 12

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We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies.

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**Who acts:** We, few · **What happens:** call, speak · **To what, where:** stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, \_to My Dear Little May\_. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, few), 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:pg7439:3:12
# text = We have called our stories Fairy Tales though few of them speak of fairies.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	speak	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · perfect | We | our stories |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent story=Theme tale=Result |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | few of tales |  |  |  |  | of fairies | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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