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title: Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingeniou… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true. Who acts: suggestion, Benfey. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XVI. Tatty Mouse and Tatty Mouse., sentence 34

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Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true.

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**Who acts:** suggestion, Benfey · **What happens:** be, suggest

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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 (suggestion, Benfey), 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:pg7439:66:34
# text = Benfey's suggestion is certainly ingenious, but perhaps too ingenious to be true.
1	Benfey	Benfey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ingenious	ingenious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Benfey's suggestion |  |  |  |  | certainly, ingenious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Benfey's suggestion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | Benfey's suggestion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | true *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **suggest** |  | Benfey |  |  |  |  |  | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: 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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