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title: [Footnote: For some recent views on fairies and tales _about_ fairie… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: [Footnote: For some recent views on fairies and tales _about_ fairies, see Notes.] Who acts: recent views. 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 13

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\[Footnote: For some recent views on fairies and tales \_about\_ fairies, see Notes.\]

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**Who acts:** recent views · **What happens:** \_, see · **To what, where:** Footnote, Notes

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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 (recent views), 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:pg7439:3:13
# text = [Footnote: For some recent views on fairies and tales _about_ fairies, see Notes.]
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Footnote	footnote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	For	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
6	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	views	view	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	_	_	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	about	about	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	Notes	Note	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **\_** | present | some recent views on fairies and tales | Footnote |  |  |  | about \_ fairies | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | infinitive | some recent views on fairies and tales *not said here* | Notes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |

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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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