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title: It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors. Who acts: extraordinary stupidity. 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 19

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It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors.

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**Who acts:** extraordinary stupidity · **What happens:** take, cover, be · **To what, where:** It, tales, extraordinary stupidity

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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 (extraordinary stupidity), 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:pg7439:3:19
# text = It must be taken also to cover tales in which what is extraordinary is the stupidity of some of the actors.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	cover	cover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
8	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	13	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | must · passive |  | It |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **cover** | to-infinitive |  | tales |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tale=Destination |
| 3 | **is** | present | the extraordinary stupidity |  |  |  |  | extraordinary *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | present |  | the extraordinary stupidity |  | tales |  | of some | tree rules |

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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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