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title: Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader d… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader did not read the lines out when alone. Who acts: monograph, reader. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XV. Master and Pupil, sentence 4

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Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader did not read the lines out when alone.

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**Who acts:** monograph, reader · **What happens:** be, not read out · **To what, where:** lines, circumstances

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. Master and Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monograph, reader), 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:pg7439:65:4
# text = Under the circumstances, it would be perhaps as well if the reader did not read the lines out when alone.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
6	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
10	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
21	alone	alone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | would | monograph |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **read out** | past · do-support | the reader | the lines |  | the circumstances |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=Topic |

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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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