--- title: _ No. xxiii.), but the closest parallel to the whole story, includin… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _ No. xxiii.), but the closest parallel to the whole story, including the mice, is afforded by a tale in Carnoy and Nicolaides' _Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure_, which is translated as the first tale in Mr. Lang's _Blue Fairy Book_. Who acts: tale, first tale. A sentence of «English Fairy T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/) / 6 # English Fairy Tales, XVII. Jack and His Snuff-box., sentence 6 \_ No. xxiii.), but the closest parallel to the whole story, including the mice, is afforded by a tale in Carnoy and Nicolaides' \_Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure\_, which is translated as the first tale in Mr. Lang's \_Blue Fairy Book\_. **Who acts:** tale, first tale · **What happens:** afford, translate · **To what, where:** closest parallel, Traditions populaires 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 (tale, first tale), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:67:6 # text = _ No. xxiii.), but the closest parallel to the whole story, including the mice, is afforded by a tale in Carnoy and Nicolaides' _Traditions populaires de l'Asie Mineure_, which is translated as the first tale in Mr. Lang's _Blue Fairy Book_. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 3 punct _ _ 2 No. no. DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 xxiii xxiii NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 closest close ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 10 parallel parallel NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj:pass _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 including including ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 mice mouse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 aux:pass _ _ 21 afforded afford VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 22 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 Carnoy Carnoy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 Nicolaides Nicolaides PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ' 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 Traditions tradition NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 compound _ _ 32 populaires populaire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 advcl _ _ 33 de de X FW Foreign=Yes 32 conj _ _ 34 l'Asie l'Asie X FW Foreign=Yes 32 conj _ _ 35 Mineure Mineure PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 translated translate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 parataxis _ _ 41 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 44 amod _ _ 44 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl:agent _ _ 45 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 46 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 nmod:desc _ _ 47 Lang Lang PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 48 's 's PART POS _ 47 case _ _ 49 _ _ PROPN NNP Number=Sing 50 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 Blue Blue ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 Fairy Fairy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 Book Book PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **afford** | present · passive | a tale in Carnoy and Nicolaides | the closest parallel to the whole story | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **translate** | present · passive | the first tale in Lang Mr.'s Fairy Book | Traditions populaires | | | | | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/67/7/) - ↑ back to [XVII. 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