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title: His interesting book, so far as it goes, seems to throw light on tal… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His interesting book, so far as it goes, seems to throw light on tales about mermaids (Finnish women in their “kayaks,”) and trolls, but not necessarily, on fairy tales in general. Who acts: interesting book. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its depend
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 81

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His interesting book, so far as it goes, seems to throw light on tales about mermaids (Finnish women in their “kayaks,”) and trolls, but not necessarily, on fairy tales in general.

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**Who acts:** interesting book · **What happens:** go, seem, throw, troll · **To what, where:** light, tales

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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 (interesting book), 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:pg7439:71:81
# text = His interesting book, so far as it goes, seems to throw light on tales about mermaids (Finnish women in their “kayaks,”) and trolls, but not necessarily, on fairy tales in general.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	mermaids	mermaid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Finnish	finnish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	kayaks	kayak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	25	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	trolls	troll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	necessarily	necessarily	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	parataxis	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | present | Sidhe's interesting book |  |  |  |  | far, necessarily *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | present | Sidhe's interesting book *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **throw** | to-infinitive | Sidhe's interesting book *not said here* | light |  | tales about mermaids and Finnish women |  | in tales's kayaks | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent light=Theme on tale=Destination |
| 4 | **troll** | present | Sidhe's interesting book *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=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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