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title: I may add that many of their stories were taken from printed sources. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I may add that many of their stories were taken from printed sources. 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 37

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I may add that many of their stories were taken from printed sources.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** add, take, print · **To what, where:** many, printed sources

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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:pg7439:3:37
# text = I may add that many of their stories were taken from printed sources.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
5	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	printed	print	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | may | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past · passive |  | many of Brothers's stories |  | printed sources |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from source=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **print** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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