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title: _Remarks_.--“The Three Bears” is the only example I know of where a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--“The Three Bears” is the only example I know of where a tale that can be definitely traced to a specific author has become a folk-tale. Who acts: Remarks, I, tale. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 4

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\_Remarks\_.--“The Three Bears” is the only example I know of where a tale that can be definitely traced to a specific author has become a folk-tale.

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**Who acts:** Remarks, I, tale · **What happens:** be, know, trace, become · **To what, where:** only example, tale, folk tale · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Remarks, I, 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:pg7439:68:4
# text = _Remarks_.--“The Three Bears” is the only example I know of where a tale that can be definitely traced to a specific author has become a folk-tale.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	definitely	definitely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	specific	specific	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	author	author	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	ccomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	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 | **is a** | present | Remarks | the only example |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 3 | **trace** | can · passive |  | a tale |  |  |  | to a specific author; definitely *property* | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **become** | present · perfect | a tale | a folk tale |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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