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title: _ I have eliminated a superfluous Gipsy who makes her appearance tow… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ I have eliminated a superfluous Gipsy who makes her appearance towards the end of the tale _à propos des boltes_, but otherwise have left the tale unaltered as one of the few English folk-tales that have been taken down from the mouths of the peasantry: this applies also to i., ii., xi. Who acts: 
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# English Fairy Tales, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., sentence 3

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\_ I have eliminated a superfluous Gipsy who makes her appearance towards the end of the tale \_à propos des boltes\_, but otherwise have left the tale unaltered as one of the few English folk-tales that have been taken down from the mouths of the peasantry: this applies also to i., ii., xi.

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**Who acts:** I, superfluous Gipsy, this · **What happens:** eliminate, make, leave, take down, apply · **To what, where:** superfluous Gipsy, appearance, tale, few English folk tales, mouths, i.

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, superfluous Gipsy, this), 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:pg7439:67:3
# text = _ I have eliminated a superfluous Gipsy who makes her appearance towards the end of the tale _à propos des boltes_, but otherwise have left the tale unaltered as one of the few English folk-tales that have been taken down from the mouths of the peasantry: this applies also to i., ii., xi.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	eliminated	eliminate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	superfluous	superfluous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Gipsy	gipsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	à	à	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	propos	propo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
21	des	des	X	FW	_	22	compound	_	_
22	boltes	bolte	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	unaltered	unaltered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
36	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
37	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
38	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	down	down	ADP	RP	_	44	compound:prt	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	54	punct	_	_
53	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	54	nsubj	_	_
54	applies	apply	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
55	also	also	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
56	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	57	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
62	xi	xi	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eliminate** | present · perfect | I | a superfluous Gipsy |  |  |  | à propos and des boltes | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gipsy=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | present | a superfluous Gipsy | p.'s appearance |  |  | towards the end of the tale |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appearance=Product |
| 3 | **leave** | present · perfect | I *not said here* | the tale |  |  |  | as one of the few English folk tales; otherwise, unaltered *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme |
| 4 | **take down** | present · perfect · passive |  | the few English folk tales |  | the mouths of the peasantry |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **apply** | present | this | i. |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i.=Theme |

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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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