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title: The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales I am acquainted with, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power. Who acts: Tom Tit, I, collection. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependen
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 22

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The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales I am acquainted with, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power.

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**Who acts:** Tom Tit, I, collection · **What happens:** open, unequall, be, combine, sense · **To what, where:** collection, story, other folk tales, humour

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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 (Tom Tit, I, collection), 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:pg7439:3:22
# text = The story of Tom Tit Tot, which opens our collection, is unequalled among all other folk-tales I am acquainted with, for its combined sense of humour and dramatic power.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Tit	Tit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Tot	Tot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	opens	open	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	unequalled	unequall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
17	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
29	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	parataxis	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	dramatic	dramatic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | present | Tom Tit | our collection |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location collection=Theme |
| 2 | **unequall** | present · passive |  | the story of Tom Tit |  |  |  | among all other folk tales | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | I | all other folk tales *not said here* |  |  |  | acquainted *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **combine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **sense** |  | collection | humour |  |  |  |  | nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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