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title: _Remarks_.--According to Mr. Hartland, the story is designed as a sa… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _Remarks_.--According to Mr. Hartland, the story is designed as a satire on pedantry, and is as old in Italy as Straparola (sixteenth century). A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 10

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\_Remarks\_.--According to Mr. Hartland, the story is designed as a satire on pedantry, and is as old in Italy as Straparola (sixteenth century).

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**What happens:** accord, design, be · **To what, where:** story, Italy

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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: 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:pg7439:92:10
# text = _Remarks_.--According to Mr. Hartland, the story is designed as a satire on pedantry, and is as old in Italy as Straparola (sixteenth century).
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.--	.--	SYM	NFP	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	case	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Hartland	Hartland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	designed	design	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	satire	satire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pedantry	pedantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Italy	Italy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Straparola	Straparola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	sixteenth	sixteenth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **design** | present · passive |  | the story |  |  |  | as a satire on pedantry | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Result as satire=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | Italy |  | as Straparola; old *property* | tree rules |

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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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