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title: I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in tales of this type, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original. Who acts: I, type. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., with its dependency tree and t
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# English Fairy Tales, VII. Nix Nought Nothing., sentence 3

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I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in tales of this type, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original.

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**Who acts:** I, type · **What happens:** insert, expand, curtail, confuse, tell · **To what, where:** incidents, conclusion, original · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. Nix Nought Nothing.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, type), 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:pg7439:57:3
# text = I have also inserted the incidents of the flight, the usual ones in tales of this type, and expanded the conclusion, which is very curtailed and confused in the original.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	inserted	insert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	type	type	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	expanded	expand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	curtailed	curtail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	appos	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	confused	confuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insert** | present · perfect | I | the incidents of the flight and the usual ones in tales of this type |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Theme |
| 2 | **expand** | past | I *not said here* | the conclusion |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent conclusion=Patient |
| 3 | **curtail** | present · passive |  | the conclusion |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **confuse** | participle |  |  |  | the original |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **tell** |  | this type |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication 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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