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title: Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for “Fairy Tales,” and this is the only name which they give to them. Who acts: stories, little ones, this. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 15

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Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for “Fairy Tales,” and this is the only name which they give to them.

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**Who acts:** stories, little ones, this · **What happens:** be, mean, clamour, give · **To what, where:** only name, tales

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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 (stories, little ones, this), 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:pg7439:3:15
# text = Yet our stories are what the little ones mean when they clamour for “Fairy Tales,” and this is the only name which they give to them.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	clamour	clamour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | our stories |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | the little ones |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **clamour** |  | stories *= story* |  |  |  |  | for Fairy Tales and the only name | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present | this | the only name |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | present | stories *= story* | the only name | tales *= tale* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Theme to they=Recipient |

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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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