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title: Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for othe… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls. Who acts: Many tales. 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 20

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Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls.

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**Who acts:** Many tales · **What happens:** be

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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 (Many tales), 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:pg7439:3:20
# text = Many of the tales in this volume, as in similar collections for other European countries, are what the folklorists call Drolls.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	volume	volume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	collections	collection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	European	European	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
19	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	22	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	folklorists	folklorist	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	Drolls	droll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Many tales in this volume and similar collections for other European countries |  |  |  |  | call *property* | 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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