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title: I have also rescued and re-told a few Fairy Tales that only exist no… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have also rescued and re-told a few Fairy Tales that only exist now-a-days in the form of ballads. Who acts: few Fairy 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 30

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I have also rescued and re-told a few Fairy Tales that only exist now-a-days in the form of ballads.

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**Who acts:** few Fairy Tales · **What happens:** rescue, re-tol, exist, form · **To what, where:** I, few Fairy Tales, form, ballads

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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 (few Fairy 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:pg7439:3:30
# text = I have also rescued and re-told a few Fairy Tales that only exist now-a-days in the form of ballads.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	re-told	re-tol	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	exist	exist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ballads	ballad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rescue** | present · perfect · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **re-tol** | participle |  | a few Fairy Tales |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** | present | a few Fairy Tales |  |  | the form of ballads | now; day |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 4 | **form** |  |  | ballads |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: 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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