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title: _Remarks_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected, far superior to any of the continental variants of this tale with which I am acquainted. Who acts: I, tale. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# English Fairy Tales, I. Tom Tit Tot., sentence 7

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\_Remarks\_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected, far superior to any of the continental variants of this tale with which I am acquainted.

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**Who acts:** I, tale · **What happens:** collect, be, vary · **To what, where:** best folk tales

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, I. Tom Tit Tot.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, tale), 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:pg7439:51:7
# text = _Remarks_.--One of the best folk-tales that have ever been collected, far superior to any of the continental variants of this tale with which I am acquainted.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obl	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
33	acquainted	acquainted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · perfect · passive |  | the best folk tales |  |  | ever |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with this tale; acquainted *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **vary** |  | this tale |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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