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title: _Remarks_.--It is doubtful how far such gruesome topics should be in… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--It is doubtful how far such gruesome topics should be introduced into a book for children, but as a matter of fact the _katharsis_ of pity and terror among the little ones is as effective as among the spectators of a drama, and they take the same kind of pleasant thrill from such stories
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# English Fairy Tales, XXIV. Golden Arm., sentence 10

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\_Remarks\_.--It is doubtful how far such gruesome topics should be introduced into a book for children, but as a matter of fact the \_katharsis\_ of pity and terror among the little ones is as effective as among the spectators of a drama, and they take the same kind of pleasant thrill from such stories.

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**Who acts:** Remarks, \_ katharsis \_, \_, fact · **What happens:** be, introduce, take, matter · **To what, where:** such gruesome topics, book, same kind, such stories

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIV. Golden Arm.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Remarks, \_ katharsis \_, \_, fact), 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:pg7439:74:10
# text = _Remarks_.--It is doubtful how far such gruesome topics should be introduced into a book for children, but as a matter of fact the _katharsis_ of pity and terror among the little ones is as effective as among the spectators of a drama, and they take the same kind of pleasant thrill from such stories.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	doubtful	doubtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	gruesome	gruesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	topics	topic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	introduced	introduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	_	_	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	katharsis	katharsis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
36	among	among	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
41	as	as	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	effective	effective	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
43	as	as	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	among	among	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	spectators	spectator	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	thrill	thrill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nmod	_	_
60	from	from	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
61	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Remarks |  |  |  |  | doubtful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **introduce** | should · passive |  | such gruesome topics |  | a book for children |  | far *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | the \_ katharsis \_ of pity among the little ones and terror |  |  |  |  | as a matter of fact; as the spectators of a drama; effective *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | present | \_ | the same kind of pleasant thrill |  | such stories |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent kind=Theme from story=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **matter** |  | fact |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition 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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