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title: The second part, as in most chap-books, is a weak and late invention… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The second part, as in most chap-books, is a weak and late invention of the enemy, and is not _volkstümlich_ at all. Who acts: second part. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 5

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The second part, as in most chap-books, is a weak and late invention of the enemy, and is not \_volkstümlich\_ at all.

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**Who acts:** second part · **What happens:** be, not be · **To what, where:** weak invention, volkstümlich, all

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second part), 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:pg7439:69:5
# text = The second part, as in most chap-books, is a weak and late invention of the enemy, and is not _volkstümlich_ at all.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
8	chap	chap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	books	book	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	volkstümlich	volkstümlich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	26	punct	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the second part and most chap books | a weak invention and volkstümlich |  |  |  | of the enemy | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **is a** | present | the second part and most chap books *not said here* | volkstümlich |  | all |  |  | 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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