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title: In and out among the oak-trees you might catch glimpses of the Piper… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In and out among the oak-trees you might catch glimpses of the Piper's many-coloured coat. Who acts: you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 57

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In and out among the oak-trees you might catch glimpses of the Piper's many-coloured coat.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** catch, glimpse · **To what, where:** glimpses, coloured coat

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg14241:15:57
# text = In and out among the oak-trees you might catch glimpses of the Piper's many-coloured coat.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	glimpses	glimpse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Piper	Piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	coloured	coloured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | might | you | glimpses of the Piper's coloured coat |  |  |  | out *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glimpse=Theme |
| 2 | **glimpse** |  |  | the Piper's coloured coat |  |  |  |  | nom glimpse «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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