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title: I will therefore touch upon these points, reserving a more detailed… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I will therefore touch upon these points, reserving a more detailed examination for another occasion. Who acts: I. 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 34

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I will therefore touch upon these points, reserving a more detailed examination for another occasion.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** touch, reserve · **To what, where:** detailed examination

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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), 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:pg7439:71:34
# text = I will therefore touch upon these points, reserving a more detailed examination for another occasion.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	reserving	reserve	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
12	detailed	detailed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	examination	examination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
16	occasion	occasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **touch** | future | I |  |  |  |  | upon this points; therefore *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reserve** | gerund | I *not said here* | a detailed examination |  |  |  | for another occasion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent examination=Theme for occasion=Beneficiary |

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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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