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title: _--Abraham Elder, _Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight_ (London,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Abraham Elder, _Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight_ (London, 1839), pp. 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 2

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\_--Abraham Elder, \_Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight\_ (London, 1839), pp.

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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: 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:pg14241:35:2
# text = _--Abraham Elder, _Tales and Legends of the Isle of Wight_ (London, 1839), pp.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Abraham	Abraham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Wight	Wight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	1839	1839	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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