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title: With the Folk-tale as with the Ballad, Lowland Scotch may be regarde… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: With the Folk-tale as with the Ballad, Lowland Scotch may be regarded as simply a dialect of English, and it is a mere chance whether a tale is extant in one or other, or both. Who acts: dialect, tale. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 29

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With the Folk-tale as with the Ballad, Lowland Scotch may be regarded as simply a dialect of English, and it is a mere chance whether a tale is extant in one or other, or both.

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**Who acts:** dialect, tale · **What happens:** regard, be · **To what, where:** mere chance

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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 (dialect, tale), 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:pg7439:3:29
# text = With the Folk-tale as with the Ballad, Lowland Scotch may be regarded as simply a dialect of English, and it is a mere chance whether a tale is extant in one or other, or both.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Ballad	Ballad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	regarded	regard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	simply	simply	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	English	English	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
29	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	extant	extant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	obl	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | may · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with the Folk tale as the Ballad and Lowland; as a dialect of English | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: as dialect=Value |
| 2 | **is a** | present | dialect | a mere chance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | a tale | a mere chance *not said here* |  |  |  | in one; extant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | a tale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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