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title: "No matter vor that, I have been fishing in my pocket, and have just… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "No matter vor that, I have been fishing in my pocket, and have just caught one." Who acts: matter vor. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 140

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"No matter vor that, I have been fishing in my pocket, and have just caught one."

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**Who acts:** matter vor · **What happens:** fish, catch · **To what, where:** pocket, matter vor

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter vor), 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:pg14241:33:140
# text = "No matter vor that, I have been fishing in my pocket, and have just caught one."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	vor	vor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	aux	_	_
10	fishing	fish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	just	just	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fish** *in a quote* | present · perfect · progressive | no matter vor |  |  | my pocket |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |
| 2 | **catch** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | no matter vor |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary one=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:** «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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