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title: The Councils of the English and of the American Folk-lore Societies,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Councils of the English and of the American Folk-lore Societies, and Messrs. 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 58

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The Councils of the English and of the American Folk-lore Societies, and Messrs.

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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: 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:pg7439:3:58
# text = The Councils of the English and of the American Folk-lore Societies, and Messrs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Councils	council	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	American	American	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Societies	society	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Messrs	Messrs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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