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title: He goes on further to identify these with the Picts--fairies are cal… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He goes on further to identify these with the Picts--fairies are called “Pechs” in Scotland--and other early races, but with these ethnological equations we need not much concern ourselves. Who acts: Tradition, Picts, we. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., wi
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 58

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He goes on further to identify these with the Picts--fairies are called “Pechs” in Scotland--and other early races, but with these ethnological equations we need not much concern ourselves.

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**Who acts:** Tradition, Picts, we · **What happens:** go on, identify, call, need · **To what, where:** these, fairies, Scotland, much concern · **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 (Tradition, Picts, we), 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:pg7439:71:58
# text = He goes on further to identify these with the Picts--fairies are called “Pechs” in Scotland--and other early races, but with these ethnological equations we need not much concern ourselves.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	further	further	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	identify	identify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Picts	pict	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Pechs	Pech	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	ethnological	ethnological	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	equations	equation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	parataxis	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	concern	concern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **go on** | present | Tradition |  |  |  |  | further *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **identify** | to-infinitive | Tradition *not said here* | these |  |  |  | with the Picts | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent this=Theme |
| 3 | **call** | present · passive | the Picts *not said here* | fairies |  | Scotland |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **need** | present | we | much concern  ourselves |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot concern=Theme |

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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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