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title: It is, perhaps, not necessary to inform readers who are not fellow-s… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is, perhaps, not necessary to inform readers who are not fellow-students that the study of Folk-tales has pretensions to be a science. Who acts: readers, study. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _to My Dear Little May_, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 51

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It is, perhaps, not necessary to inform readers who are not fellow-students that the study of Folk-tales has pretensions to be a science.

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**Who acts:** readers, study · **What happens:** not be, inform, have, be, study · **To what, where:** readers, fellow students, that, science, Folk 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 (readers, study), 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:pg7439:3:51
# text = It is, perhaps, not necessary to inform readers who are not fellow-students that the study of Folk-tales has pretensions to be a science.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	inform	inform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	csubj	_	_
10	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
12	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
14	fellow	fellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	students	student	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
25	pretensions	pretension	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | necessary, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | readers |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reader=Recipient |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | present | readers | fellow students |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | the study of Folk tales | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the study of Folk tales *not said here* | a science |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **study** |  |  | Folk tales |  |  |  |  | nom study «act 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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