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title: I refer to the recently published work of Mr. D. MacRitchie, “The Te… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I refer to the recently published work of Mr. D. MacRitchie, “The Testimony of Tradition” (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.)--_i.e._, of tradition about the fairies and the rest. Who acts: I, D.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree an
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 55

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I refer to the recently published work of Mr. D. MacRitchie, “The Testimony of Tradition” (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.)--\_i.e.\_, of tradition about the fairies and the rest.

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**Who acts:** I, D. · **What happens:** refer, publish, work

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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, D.), 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:pg7439:71:55
# text = I refer to the recently published work of Mr. D. MacRitchie, “The Testimony of Tradition” (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.)--_i.e._, of tradition about the fairies and the rest.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	refer	refer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:desc	_	_
10	D.	D.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	MacRitchie	MacRitchie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Testimony	Testimony	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Kegan	Kegan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Paul	Paul	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Trench	Trench	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Trübner	Trübner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
26	&	&	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	Co.	co.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	i.e.	i.e.	ADV	FW	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
36	about	about	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refer** | present | I |  |  |  |  | to the published work of D.  Mr. | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to work=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **work** |  | D.  Mr. |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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