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title: There is little that is savage and archaic to attract the school of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is little that is savage and archaic to attract the school of Dr. Tylor, beyond the speaking powers of animals and inanimates. Who acts: little savage, that. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 26

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There is little that is savage and archaic to attract the school of Dr. Tylor, beyond the speaking powers of animals and inanimates.

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**Who acts:** little savage, that · **What happens:** be, attract, speak · **To what, where:** school · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (little savage, that), 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:pg7439:66:26
# text = There is little that is savage and archaic to attract the school of Dr. Tylor, beyond the speaking powers of animals and inanimates.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	archaic	archaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	attract	attract	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	school	school	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:desc	_	_
15	Tylor	Tylor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	inanimates	inanimate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | little savage |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | savage *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **attract** | to-infinitive | that *not said here* | the school of Tylor  Dr. |  |  |  | beyond the speaking powers of animals and inanimates | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent school=Patient |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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