--- title: _Source_.--I have taken what suited me from a number of sources, whi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: _Source_.--I have taken what suited me from a number of sources, which shows how wide-spread this quaint droll is in England: (i) In Mayhew, _London Poor_, iii. Who acts: Mayhew, sources, quaint droll. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters., with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/1/) [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/) / [XLII. Master of All Masters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/) / 1 # English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 1 \_Source\_.--I have taken what suited me from a number of sources, which shows how wide-spread this quaint droll is in England: (i) In Mayhew, \_London Poor\_, iii. **Who acts:** Mayhew, sources, quaint droll · **What happens:** take, suit, show, spread, be · **To what, where:** Source, me, number, spread England This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mayhew, sources, quaint droll), 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:pg7439:92:1 # text = _Source_.--I have taken what suited me from a number of sources, which shows how wide-spread this quaint droll is in England: (i) In Mayhew, _London Poor_, iii. 1 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Source source NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 3 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 .-- .-- PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 nsubj _ _ 9 suited suit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 20 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 21 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 23 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 24 quaint quaint ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 droll droll NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 i i NUM LS _ 34 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 31 punct _ _ 33 In in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 Mayhew Mayhew PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Poor Poor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 39 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 iii III NUM CD NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card 34 list _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present · perfect · passive | Mayhew | Source | | | | | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent subject=Theme clause=Attribute | | 2 | **suit** | past | | me | | a number of sources | | | tree rules | | 3 | **show** | present | sources | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **spread** | participle | | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | this quaint droll | | | spread England | | | tree rules | 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: [XLI. the Well of the World's…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/91/17/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/92/2/) - ↑ back to [XLII. 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