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title: Dowden remarks, Southey's memory is kept alive more by “The Three Be… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dowden remarks, Southey's memory is kept alive more by “The Three Bears” than anything else, and the text of such a nursery classic should be retained in all its purity. Who acts: Three Bears. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears., with its dependency tree and
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 12

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Dowden remarks, Southey's memory is kept alive more by “The Three Bears” than anything else, and the text of such a nursery classic should be retained in all its purity.

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**Who acts:** Three Bears · **What happens:** keep, retain · **To what, where:** memory, text, purity

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Three Bears), 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:pg7439:68:12
# text = Dowden remarks, Southey's memory is kept alive more by “The Three Bears” than anything else, and the text of such a nursery classic should be retained in all its purity.
1	Dowden	Dowden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	Southey	Southey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
10	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	obj	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	than	than	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	8	obl	_	_
19	else	else	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	28	det:predet	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	classic	classic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	retained	retain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	purity	purity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	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 | **keep** | present · passive | the Three Bears | Southey's memory |  |  |  | than anything; alive *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **retain** | should · passive |  | the text of such nursery classic |  | text's purity |  |  | tree rules |

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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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