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title: In the following notes I give first the _source_ whence I obtained t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the following notes I give first the _source_ whence I obtained the various tales. Who acts: I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Notes and References, sentence 1

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In the following notes I give first the \_source\_ whence I obtained the various tales.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** follow, give, obtain · **To what, where:** source, following notes, various tales

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Notes and References. 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:pg7439:50:1
# text = In the following notes I give first the _source_ whence I obtained the various tales.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	14	punct	_	_
12	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	obtained	obtain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present | I | the source |  | the following notes |  | first *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent source=Theme |
| 3 | **obtain** | past | I | the various tales |  |  |  | whence *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=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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