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title: 227-52, quotes a poem, _The Sea Piece_, published by Dr. Kirkpatrick… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 227-52, quotes a poem, _The Sea Piece_, published by Dr. Kirkpatrick in 1750, as showing that a similar legend was told of the Cave Hill, Belfast. Who acts: 227-52. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 14

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227-52, quotes a poem, \_The Sea Piece\_, published by Dr. Kirkpatrick in 1750, as showing that a similar legend was told of the Cave Hill, Belfast.

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**Who acts:** 227-52 · **What happens:** quote, publish, show, tell · **To what, where:** poem, Sea Piece, 1750, similar legend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (227-52), 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:pg14241:35:14
# text = 227-52, quotes a poem, _The Sea Piece_, published by Dr. Kirkpatrick in 1750, as showing that a similar legend was told of the Cave Hill, Belfast.
1	227-52	227-52	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	quotes	quote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Piece	Piece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	published	publish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Dr.	Dr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:desc	_	_
16	Kirkpatrick	Kirkpatrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	1750	1750	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Cave	Cave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	Hill	Hill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quote** *speech: other* | present | 227-52 | a poem |  |  |  | the Sea Piece *obl* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic |
| 2 | **publish** | participle |  | the Sea Piece *not said here* |  | 1750 |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | 227-52 *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · passive |  | a similar legend |  |  |  | of the Cave Hill | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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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