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title: In the majority of instances I have had largely to rewrite these Fai… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the majority of instances I have had largely to rewrite these Fairy Tales, especially those in dialect, including the Lowland Scotch. Who acts: I. 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 34

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In the majority of instances I have had largely to rewrite these Fairy Tales, especially those in dialect, including the Lowland Scotch.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** have, rewrite · **To what, where:** majority, Fairy Tales

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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), 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:pg7439:3:34
# text = In the majority of instances I have had largely to rewrite these Fairy Tales, especially those in dialect, including the Lowland Scotch.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	majority	majority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	instances	instance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	largely	largely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	rewrite	rewrite	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	Fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tales	Tale	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	dialect	dialect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
21	including	including	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Lowland	Lowland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Scotch	Scotch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | I |  |  | the majority of instances |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rewrite** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | this Fairy Tales |  |  |  | including the Lowland Scotch; those *obl*; largely *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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