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title: Certainly no other folk-tale in the world can claim so distinguished… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly no other folk-tale in the world can claim so distinguished an offspring. Who acts: other folk tale. 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 32

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Certainly no other folk-tale in the world can claim so distinguished an offspring.

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**Who acts:** other folk tale · **What happens:** claim

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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 (other folk 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:pg7439:71:32
# text = Certainly no other folk-tale in the world can claim so distinguished an offspring.
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
3	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	claim	claim	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **claim** *speech: other* | can | no other folk tale in the world |  |  |  |  | certainly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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