---
title: Newtown, when Hassel visited it in 1790, had only six or seven house… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Newtown, when Hassel visited it in 1790, had only six or seven houses (_l.c. Who acts: Newtown. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/29/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/) / 29

# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 29

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Newtown, when Hassel visited it in 1790, had only six or seven houses (\_l.c.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Newtown · **What happens:** visit, have · **To what, where:** locality, 1790, six houses

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Newtown), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg14241:35:29
# text = Newtown, when Hassel visited it in 1790, had only six or seven houses (_l.c.
1	Newtown	Newtown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	Hassel	Hassel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	visited	visit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	1790	1790	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	conj	_	_
15	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **visit** | past | Newtown | locality |  | 1790 |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | Newtown *not said here* | six houses and l.c |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/28/)
- next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/30/)
- ↑ back to [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/)