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title: But the folk-tale parallels to our tale fade into insignificance bef… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the folk-tale parallels to our tale fade into insignificance before its brilliant literary relationships. Who acts: tale parallels, our. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 14

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But the folk-tale parallels to our tale fade into insignificance before its brilliant literary relationships.

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**Who acts:** tale parallels, our · **What happens:** fade, tell · **To what, where:** insignificance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tale parallels, our), 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:pg7439:71:14
# text = But the folk-tale parallels to our tale fade into insignificance before its brilliant literary relationships.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	fade	fade	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	insignificance	insignificance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	relationships	relationship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fade** | present | the tale parallels to our tale |  |  | insignificance | before insignificance's brilliant literary relationships |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **tell** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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