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title: I have felt justified in doing this, as of the twenty-one folk-tales… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have felt justified in doing this, as of the twenty-one folk-tales contained in Chambers' “Popular Rhymes of Scotland,” no less than sixteen are also to be found in an English form. Who acts: I, one folk tales, Scotland. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 28

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I have felt justified in doing this, as of the twenty-one folk-tales contained in Chambers' “Popular Rhymes of Scotland,” no less than sixteen are also to be found in an English form.

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**Who acts:** I, one folk tales, Scotland · **What happens:** feel, do, contain, find, rhyme · **To what, where:** this, sixteen, Popular Rhymes, one folk tales, English form

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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 (I, one folk tales, Scotland), 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:pg7439:3:28
# text = I have felt justified in doing this, as of the twenty-one folk-tales contained in Chambers' “Popular Rhymes of Scotland,” no less than sixteen are also to be found in an English form.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	justified	justified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	17	case	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
12	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
15	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	contained	contain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	Chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Rhymes	rhyme	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
29	no	no	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
30	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	sixteen	sixteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
33	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
34	also	also	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | justified *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | gerund | I *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality |
| 3 | **contain** | participle | the one folk tales *not said here* | sixteen |  | Chambers's Popular Rhymes of Scotland |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in rhyme=Location |
| 4 | **find** | present · passive |  | the one folk tales |  | a English form |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **rhyme** *in a quote* |  | Scotland |  |  |  |  |  | nom rhyme «communication intransitive»: of=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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