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title: Now Elder himself quotes Verstegan in his comments on the legend, pp. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Elder himself quotes Verstegan in his comments on the legend, pp. Who acts: Elder, p.. 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 27

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Now Elder himself quotes Verstegan in his comments on the legend, pp.

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**Who acts:** Elder, p. · **What happens:** quote, comment · **To what, where:** Verstegan, comments, legend

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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 (Elder, p.), 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:pg14241:35:27
# text = Now Elder himself quotes Verstegan in his comments on the legend, pp.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Elder	Elder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	2	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	quotes	quote	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Verstegan	Verstegan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	comments	comment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	pp	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | Elder  p. | Verstegan |  | p.'s comments on the legend and pp | now |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verstegan=Topic |
| 2 | **comment** |  | p. |  |  | the legend and pp |  |  | nom comment «communication transitive»: poss=agent on=place |

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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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