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title: It does not occur in any of the local histories of the Isle of Wight… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It does not occur in any of the local histories of the Isle of Wight which I have been able to consult of a date previous to Elder's book--_e.g._, J. Hassel, _Tour of the Isle of Wight_, 1790. Who acts: question, local histories. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the P
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 25

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It does not occur in any of the local histories of the Isle of Wight which I have been able to consult of a date previous to Elder's book--\_e.g.\_, J. Hassel, \_Tour of the Isle of Wight\_, 1790.

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**Who acts:** question, local histories · **What happens:** not occur, be, consult · **To what, where:** any

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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 (question, local histories), 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:pg14241:35:25
# text = It does not occur in any of the local histories of the Isle of Wight which I have been able to consult of a date previous to Elder's book--_e.g._, J. Hassel, _Tour of the Isle of Wight_, 1790.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	occur	occur	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	histories	history	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Wight	Wight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	consult	consult	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	date	date	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	previous	previous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	e.g.	e.g.	ADV	FW	_	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	J.	J.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	Hassel	Hassel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Tour	Tour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Wight	Wight	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	1790	1790	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	33	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **occur** | present · do-support | question |  |  | any |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in any=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | the local histories of the Isle of Wight |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **consult** | to-infinitive | the local histories of the Isle of Wight *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of a date | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of date=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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