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title: Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been c… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country. 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 7

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Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.

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**What happens:** collect · **To what, where:** 1000 tales, date

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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:pg7439:3:7
# text = Yet, within fifteen years from that date, over 1000 tales had been collected in each country.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	within	within	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	1000	1000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | past · perfect · passive |  | 1000 tales |  | that date | year | in each country | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from date=Source |

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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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