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title: Not alone is this so, but the folk has developed the tale in a curio… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Not alone is this so, but the folk has developed the tale in a curious and instructive way, by substituting a pretty little girl with golden locks for the naughty old woman. Who acts: folk. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XVIII. the Three Bears., with its dependency tree and th
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# English Fairy Tales, XVIII. the Three Bears., sentence 5

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Not alone is this so, but the folk has developed the tale in a curious and instructive way, by substituting a pretty little girl with golden locks for the naughty old woman.

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**Who acts:** folk · **What happens:** not be, develop, substitute · **To what, where:** tale, curious way, little girl

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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 (folk), 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:pg7439:68:5
# text = Not alone is this so, but the folk has developed the tale in a curious and instructive way, by substituting a pretty little girl with golden locks for the naughty old woman.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	fixed	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	developed	develop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	instructive	instructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	substituting	substitute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	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 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **develop** | present · perfect | the folk | the tale |  | a curious way |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Product |
| 3 | **substitute** | gerund | the folk *not said here* | a little girl |  |  |  | with golden locks; for the naughty old woman | vn substitute-13.6.2 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme girl=Location with lock=Co-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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