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title: There still remains the curious parallel from Belfast to which Mrs.… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There still remains the curious parallel from Belfast to which Mrs. Gutch has drawn attention. Who acts: Mrs.. 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 36

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There still remains the curious parallel from Belfast to which Mrs. Gutch has drawn attention.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. · **What happens:** remain, draw · **To what, where:** curious parallel, Belfast, attention

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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 (Mrs.), 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:pg14241:35:36
# text = There still remains the curious parallel from Belfast to which Mrs. Gutch has drawn attention.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	remains	remain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	parallel	parallel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Belfast	Belfast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	obl	_	_
11	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	Gutch	Gutch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
15	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | present |  | the curious parallel |  | Belfast; there | still |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme parallel=Attribute |
| 2 | **draw** | present · perfect | Mrs. | attention |  | the curious parallel |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to which=Destination |

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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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