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title: This seemed to me to exceed the limits of _vraisemblance_ even for a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This seemed to me to exceed the limits of _vraisemblance_ even for a folk-tale. Who acts: This. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 3

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This seemed to me to exceed the limits of \_vraisemblance\_ even for a folk-tale.

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**Who acts:** This · **What happens:** seem, exceed · **To what, where:** me, limits

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This), 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:pg7439:80:3
# text = This seemed to me to exceed the limits of _vraisemblance_ even for a folk-tale.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	exceed	exceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	limits	limit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	vraisemblance	vraisemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	_
13	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | This |  | me |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **exceed** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* | the limits of vraisemblance |  |  |  | for a folk tale | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot limit=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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