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title: It has its special terminology, and its own methods of investigation… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It has its special terminology, and its own methods of investigation, by which it is hoped, one of these days, to gain fuller knowledge of the workings of the popular mind as well as traces of archaic modes of thought and custom. Who acts: study, own methods. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by J
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 52

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It has its special terminology, and its own methods of investigation, by which it is hoped, one of these days, to gain fuller knowledge of the workings of the popular mind as well as traces of archaic modes of thought and custom.

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**Who acts:** study, own methods · **What happens:** have, hope, gain · **To what, where:** special terminology, study, knowledge

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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 (study, own methods), 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:pg7439:3:52
# text = It has its special terminology, and its own methods of investigation, by which it is hoped, one of these days, to gain fuller knowledge of the workings of the popular mind as well as traces of archaic modes of thought and custom.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	terminology	terminology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	methods	method	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	investigation	investigation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	hoped	hope	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
27	fuller	full	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	28	advmod	_	_
28	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	workings	working	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	39	cc	_	_
37	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	fixed	_	_
38	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
39	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	modes	mode	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | study | study's special terminology |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hope** | present · passive | study's own methods of investigation | study |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | knowledge of the workings of the popular mind as traces of archaic modes of thought and custom |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Theme |

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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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