--- title: _Source_.--Contributed by Blakeway to Malone's Variorum Shakespeare,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _Source_.--Contributed by Blakeway to Malone's Variorum Shakespeare, to illustrate Benedick's remark in _Much Ado about Nothing_ (I. i. 146): “Like the old tale, my Lord, 'It is not so, nor 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so;'” which clearly refers to the tale of Mr. Fox. Who acts --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [XXVI. Mr. Fox.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/76/) / 1 # English Fairy Tales, XXVI. Mr. Fox., sentence 1 \_Source\_.--Contributed by Blakeway to Malone's Variorum Shakespeare, to illustrate Benedick's remark in \_Much Ado about Nothing\_ (I. i. 146): “Like the old tale, my Lord, 'It is not so, nor 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so;'” which clearly refers to the tale of Mr. Fox. **Who acts:** Source, God, Benedick, Mr. Fox · **What happens:** contribute, illustrate, not be, forbid, be, refer · **To what, where:** Source, Variorum Shakespeare, remark, Much Ado · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXVI. Mr. Fox.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Source, God, Benedick, Mr. Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:76:1 # text = _Source_.--Contributed by Blakeway to Malone's Variorum Shakespeare, to illustrate Benedick's remark in _Much Ado about Nothing_ (I. i. 146): “Like the old tale, my Lord, 'It is not so, nor 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so;'” which clearly refers to the tale of Mr. Fox. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 .-- .-- PUNCT NFP _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Contributed contribute VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 Blakeway Blakeway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 Malone Malone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 Variorum Variorum PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 Shakespeare Shakespeare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 illustrate illustrate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 16 Benedick Benedick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 remark remark NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Ado ado NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 23 about about ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 Nothing Nothing PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 24 punct _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 I. I. X FW Foreign=Yes 24 appos _ _ 28 i. i. X FW Foreign=Yes 27 flat:foreign _ _ 29 146 146 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 32 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 Like like ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 41 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 45 advmod _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 49 cc _ _ 48 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 twas twa NOUN NNS Number=Plur 45 conj _ _ 50 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 51 advmod _ _ 51 so so ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 53 but but CCONJ CC _ 58 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 55 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 58 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 57 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 58 forbid forbid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 parataxis _ _ 59 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 62 nsubj _ _ 60 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 62 aux _ _ 61 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 62 cop _ _ 62 so so ADV RB _ 58 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ; ; PUNCT : _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 68 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 65 ” " PUNCT '' _ 64 punct _ _ 66 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 68 nsubj _ _ 67 clearly clearly ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ _ 68 refers refer VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 conj _ _ 69 to to ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 71 det _ _ 71 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obl _ _ 72 of of ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 Mr. Mr. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 74 compound _ _ 74 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 71 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **contribute** | participle | | Source *not said here* | Malone's Variorum Shakespeare | | | by Blakeway | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shakespeare=Recipient | | 2 | **illustrate** | to-infinitive | Source | Benedick's remark | | Much Ado about Nothing | | | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remark=Destination | | 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | Source | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **forbid** *in a quote* | infinitive | God | | | | | indeed *property* | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | should | Source | | | | | so *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **refer** | present | | | | | | to the tale of Mr. Fox; clearly *property* | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to tale=Co-Theme | | 7 | **remark** | | Benedick | | | | | | nom remark «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **tell** | | Mr. Fox | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [XXV. 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