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title: _Parallels_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for th… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Parallels_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales. Who acts: Parallels. 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 6

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\_Parallels\_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales.

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**Who acts:** Parallels · **What happens:** seem, select · **To what, where:** folk tales

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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 (Parallels), 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:pg7439:65:6
# text = _Parallels_.--Sorcerers' pupils seem to be generally selected for their stupidity--in folk-tales.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Sorcerers	sorcerer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	pupils	pupil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	seem	seem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	selected	select	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | Parallels and Sorcerers's pupils |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **select** | to-infinitive · passive | Parallels and Sorcerers's pupils *not said here* |  |  | folk tales |  | for Parallels's stupidity; generally *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP» |

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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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