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title: I shall then, of course, reproduce my originals with literal accurac… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I shall then, of course, reproduce my originals with literal accuracy, and have therefore felt the more at liberty on the present occasion to make the necessary deviations from this in order to make the tales readable for children. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, _
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# English Fairy Tales, \_to My Dear Little May\_, sentence 54

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I shall then, of course, reproduce my originals with literal accuracy, and have therefore felt the more at liberty on the present occasion to make the necessary deviations from this in order to make the tales readable for children.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** reproduce, feel, make · **To what, where:** originals, liberty, necessary deviations, this, 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 (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:pg7439:3:54
# text = I shall then, of course, reproduce my originals with literal accuracy, and have therefore felt the more at liberty on the present occasion to make the necessary deviations from this in order to make the tales readable for children.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
8	reproduce	reproduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	originals	original	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	literal	literal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	accuracy	accuracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	liberty	liberty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	deviations	deviation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
32	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	nmod	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obj	_	_
40	readable	readable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reproduce** | shall | I | my originals |  |  | then | with literal accuracy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent original=Patient with accuracy=Instrument |
| 2 | **feel** | present · perfect | I *not said here* |  |  | liberty on the present occasion |  | therefore *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent at liberty=Location |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the necessary deviations |  | this |  | in order | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset deviation=Product from this=Material |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the tales |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset tale=Product |

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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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