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title: _), while it is not impossible he may have come across Elder's book,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _), while it is not impossible he may have come across Elder's book, which was illustrated by Cruikshank. Who acts: Browning, Cruikshank. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 10

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\_), while it is not impossible he may have come across Elder's book, which was illustrated by Cruikshank.

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**Who acts:** Browning, Cruikshank · **What happens:** not be, come, illustrate · **To what, where:** book

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Browning, Cruikshank), 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:pg14241:35:10
# text = _), while it is not impossible he may have come across Elder's book, which was illustrated by Cruikshank.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	expl	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	parataxis	_	_
13	across	across	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cruikshank	Cruikshank	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | may · perfect | Browning |  |  | Elder's book |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across book=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **illustrate** | past · passive | Cruikshank | Elder's book |  |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Destination |

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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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