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title: _, i., 137-8), though it had the privilege of returning two members… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _, i., 137-8), though it had the privilege of returning two members to Parliament; it had been a populous town by the name of Franchville before the French invasion of the island of _temp. Who acts: i., privilege, locality. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Pi
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 30

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\_, i., 137-8), though it had the privilege of returning two members to Parliament; it had been a populous town by the name of Franchville before the French invasion of the island of \_temp.

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**Who acts:** i., privilege, locality · **What happens:** have, return, be, name, invade · **To what, where:** privilege, two members, Parliament, populous town, Franchville, island

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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 (i., privilege, locality), 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:pg14241:35:30
# text = _, i., 137-8), though it had the privilege of returning two members to Parliament; it had been a populous town by the name of Franchville before the French invasion of the island of _temp.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	137-8	137-8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	privilege	privilege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	returning	return	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	members	member	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	cop	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Franchville	Franchville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	French	French	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	temp	temp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | i. | the privilege |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent privilege=Patient |
| 2 | **return** | gerund | the privilege *not said here* | two members | Parliament |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent member=Theme to parliament=Destination |
| 3 | **is a** | past · perfect | locality | a populous town |  |  | before the French invasion of the island of temp | by the name of Franchville | tree rules |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | Franchville |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **invade** |  |  | the island of temp |  |  |  |  | nom invasion «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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