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title: There is an Italian translation, _I tre Orsi_, Turin, 1868, and it w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There is an Italian translation, _I tre Orsi_, Turin, 1868, and it would be curious to see if the tale ever acclimatises itself in Italy. Who acts: Italian translation, translation, tale. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears., with its dependency tree and the 
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 3

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There is an Italian translation, \_I tre Orsi\_, Turin, 1868, and it would be curious to see if the tale ever acclimatises itself in Italy.

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**Who acts:** Italian translation, translation, tale · **What happens:** be, see, acclimatis · **To what, where:** tale, Italy

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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 (Italian translation, translation, tale), 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:pg7439:68:3
# text = There is an Italian translation, _I tre Orsi_, Turin, 1868, and it would be curious to see if the tale ever acclimatises itself in Italy.
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	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	tre	Tre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Orsi	Orsi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Turin	Turin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	1868	1868	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	10	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	28	advmod	_	_
28	acclimatises	acclimatis	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	ccomp	_	_
29	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	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 | **be** | present | a Italian translation |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | would | translation |  |  |  |  | curious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | translation *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **acclimatis** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the tale | tale |  | Italy | ever |  | 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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