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title: It is otherwise with the mound-traditions and their relation, if not… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It is otherwise with the mound-traditions and their relation, if not to fairy tales in general, to tales _about_ fairies, trolls, elves, etc. These are very few in number, and generally bear the character of anecdotes. Who acts: concern, mound traditions. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Josep
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 59

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It is otherwise with the mound-traditions and their relation, if not to fairy tales in general, to tales \_about\_ fairies, trolls, elves, etc. These are very few in number, and generally bear the character of anecdotes.

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**Who acts:** concern, mound traditions · **What happens:** be, bear · **To what, where:** number, character

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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 (concern, mound traditions), 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:pg7439:71:59
# text = It is otherwise with the mound-traditions and their relation, if not to fairy tales in general, to tales _about_ fairies, trolls, elves, etc. These are very few in number, and generally bear the character of anecdotes.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
23	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	trolls	troll	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	elves	elf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	etc.	etc.	NOUN	FW	Abbr=Yes|Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
33	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	nmod	_	_
34	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	very	very	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
41	generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	bear	bear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	anecdotes	anecdote	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | concern |  |  |  |  | with the mound traditions and fairies's relation and fairy tales in general and tales about \_ fairies and trolls and elves and etc.; These *nmod*; otherwise *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | the mound traditions and fairies's relation and fairy tales in general and tales about \_ fairies and trolls and elves and etc. |  |  | number |  | few *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | present |  | the character of anecdotes |  |  |  | generally *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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