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title: The words “Fairy Tales” must accordingly be taken to include tales i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The words “Fairy Tales” must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something “fairy,” something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. Who acts: tales, animals. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree 
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 18

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The words “Fairy Tales” must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something “fairy,” something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

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**Who acts:** tales, animals · **What happens:** take, include, occur, speak · **To what, where:** words, tales, something · **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 (tales, animals), 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:pg7439:3:18
# text = The words “Fairy Tales” must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something “fairy,” something extraordinary--fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	include	include	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
23	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	dwarfs	dwarf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
32	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must · passive |  | the words |  |  |  | accordingly *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **include** | to-infinitive |  | tales |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tale=Theme something=Location |
| 3 | **occur** | present | tales | something |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | animals |  |  |  |  |  | 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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