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title: As most of the remainder are drolls, which have probably a different… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As most of the remainder are drolls, which have probably a different origin, there seems to be great probability that originally all folk-tales of a serious character were interspersed with rhyme, and took therefore the form of the _cante-fable_. Who acts: serious character. A sentence of «English F
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 51

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As most of the remainder are drolls, which have probably a different origin, there seems to be great probability that originally all folk-tales of a serious character were interspersed with rhyme, and took therefore the form of the \_cante-fable\_.

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**Who acts:** serious character · **What happens:** be, have, seem, intersperse, take, tell · **To what, where:** different origin, great probability, folk tales, form, fable \_ · **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 (serious character), 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:pg7439:71:51
# text = As most of the remainder are drolls, which have probably a different origin, there seems to be great probability that originally all folk-tales of a serious character were interspersed with rhyme, and took therefore the form of the _cante-fable_.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	remainder	remainder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	drolls	droll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
11	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
20	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
23	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
25	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	serious	serious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
33	interspersed	intersperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl:relcl	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
39	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
44	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	48	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	cante	cante	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as most of the remainder; droll *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | present |  | a different origin |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent origin=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | present |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | great probability |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **intersperse** | past · passive |  | all folk tales of a serious character |  |  |  | with rhyme | tree rules |
| 6 | **take** | past |  | the form of the fable \_ |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme |
| 7 | **tell** |  | a serious character |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 8 | **form** |  |  | the fable \_ |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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