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title: I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me. Who acts: I, fairy. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk., sentence 5

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I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me.

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**Who acts:** I, fairy · **What happens:** have, delete, not exist, tell · **To what, where:** greater confidence, fairy, tale, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIII. Jack and the Beanstalk.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, fairy), 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:pg7439:63:5
# text = I have had greater confidence in my young friends, and have deleted the fairy who did not exist in the tale as told to me.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	deleted	delete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
17	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	exist	exist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present · perfect | I | greater confidence |  |  |  | in my young friends | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=Patient |
| 2 | **delete** | present · perfect |  | the fairy |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fairy=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **exist** | past · do-support | the fairy |  |  | the tale |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tale=Location |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle | the fairy *not said here* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient |

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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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