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title: “Dass der Ausdruck,” say they in their Preface, “und die Ausführung… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dass der Ausdruck,” say they in their Preface, “und die Ausführung des Einzelnen grossentheils von uns herrührt, versteht sich von selbst.” Who acts: Dass, Brothers. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 36

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“Dass der Ausdruck,” say they in their Preface, “und die Ausführung des Einzelnen grossentheils von uns herrührt, versteht sich von selbst.”

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**Who acts:** Dass, Brothers · **What happens:** say, de, preface · **To what, where:** Einzelnen grossentheils, Preface · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Dass, Brothers), 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:pg7439:3:36
# text = “Dass der Ausdruck,” say they in their Preface, “und die Ausführung des Einzelnen grossentheils von uns herrührt, versteht sich von selbst.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dass	Dass	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	der	d	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
4	Ausdruck	Ausdruck	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Preface	preface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	und	und	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	die	die	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Ausführung	Ausführung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
17	des	de	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
18	Einzelnen	Einzelnen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	grossentheils	grossentheil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	von	von	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	uns	un	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	compound	_	_
22	herrührt	herrührt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	versteht	versteht	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	sich	sich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	von	von	X	FW	_	27	compound	_	_
27	selbst	selbst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Dass |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **de** *in a quote* | present | Brothers *= brother* | Einzelnen grossentheils |  | Brothers's Preface |  | von uns herrührt | tree rules |
| 3 | **preface** |  | Brothers *= brother* |  |  |  |  |  | nom preface «communication transitive»: poss=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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