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title: They indicate my sources and give a few references to parallels and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They indicate my sources and give a few references to parallels and variants which may be of interest to fellow-students of Folk-lore. Who acts: print, parallels. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 50

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They indicate my sources and give a few references to parallels and variants which may be of interest to fellow-students of Folk-lore.

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**Who acts:** print, parallels · **What happens:** indicate, give, be, fellow · **To what, where:** sources, few references, parallels, students

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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 (print, parallels), 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:pg7439:3:50
# text = They indicate my sources and give a few references to parallels and variants which may be of interest to fellow-students of Folk-lore.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	indicate	indicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	sources	source	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	references	reference	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	interest	interest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	fellow	fellow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **indicate** | present | print | my sources |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot source=Topic |
| 2 | **give** | present | print *not said here* | a few references | parallels and variants and interest |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent reference=Theme to parallel=Recipient |
| 3 | **is** | may | parallels and variants and interest |  |  |  |  | of interest | tree rules |
| 4 | **fellow** | to-infinitive | print *not said here* | students of Folk lore |  |  |  |  | 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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