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title: _Remarks_.--These 25 variants of the same jingle scattered over the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--These 25 variants of the same jingle scattered over the world from India to Spain, present the problem of the diffusion of folk-tales in its simplest form. Who acts: same jingle, diffusion. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., with its 
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# English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 23

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\_Remarks\_.--These 25 variants of the same jingle scattered over the world from India to Spain, present the problem of the diffusion of folk-tales in its simplest form.

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**Who acts:** same jingle, diffusion · **What happens:** scatter, present, vary, diffuse, form · **To what, where:** same jingle, Spain, world, problem, folk tales

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same jingle, diffusion), 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:pg7439:66:23
# text = _Remarks_.--These 25 variants of the same jingle scattered over the world from India to Spain, present the problem of the diffusion of folk-tales in its simplest form.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	jingle	jingle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	problem	problem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	diffusion	diffusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	simplest	simple	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	34	amod	_	_
34	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **scatter** | participle |  | the same jingle *not said here* | Spain | the world |  | from India | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over world=Destination |
| 2 | **present** | infinitive |  | the problem of the diffusion of folk tales in diffusion's simplest form |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Theme |
| 3 | **vary** |  | the same jingle |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **diffuse** |  |  | folk tales in diffusion's simplest form |  |  |  |  | nom diffusion «process transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **form** |  | diffusion |  |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=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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