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title: I may add that Motherwell in his _Minstrelsy_, p. xiv. note, testifi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I may add that Motherwell in his _Minstrelsy_, p. xiv. note, testifies that the story was still extant in the nursery at the time he wrote (1828).] Who acts: I, story, Motherwell. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 21

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I may add that Motherwell in his \_Minstrelsy\_, p. xiv. note, testifies that the story was still extant in the nursery at the time he wrote (1828).\]

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**Who acts:** I, story, Motherwell · **What happens:** add, testify, be, write, note · **To what, where:** Motherwell, Minstrelsy note, nursery, 1828 · **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 (I, story, Motherwell), 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:pg7439:71:21
# text = I may add that Motherwell in his _Minstrelsy_, p. xiv. note, testifies that the story was still extant in the nursery at the time he wrote (1828).]
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	Motherwell	Motherwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Minstrelsy	Minstrelsy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	xiv	xiv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
15	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	testifies	testify	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	extant	extant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	ccomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	1828	1828	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	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 | **add** *speech: assert* | may | I | Motherwell |  | Motherwell's Minstrelsy note |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motherwell=Patient |
| 2 | **testify** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the story |  |  | the nursery at the time | still | extant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **write** | past | Motherwell | 1828 |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent 1828=Theme |
| 5 | **note** |  | Motherwell |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: 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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