--- title: Before Browning, it had been told in English in books as well known… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Before Browning, it had been told in English in books as well known as Verstegan's _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_, 1605; Howell's _Familiar Letters_ (see my edition, p. 357, _n. Who acts: Familiar Letters, Verstegan, Howell. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Familiar Letters, Verstegan, Howell), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:35:7 # text = Before Browning, it had been told in English in books as well known as Verstegan's _Restitution of Decayed Intelligence_, 1605; Howell's _Familiar Letters_ (see my edition, p. 357, _n. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 Browning brown VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 7 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 English English PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 books book NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 12 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 14 cc _ _ 13 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 12 fixed _ _ 14 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 15 as as ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 16 Verstegan Verstegan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 's 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Restitution restitution NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Decayed Decayed PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 appos _ _ 22 Intelligence Intelligence PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 1605 1605 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 21 list _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 Howell Howell PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 's 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 Familiar familiar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 Letters letter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 34 punct _ _ 33 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 edition edition NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 p. P. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 appos _ _ 39 357 357 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 38 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 n n NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **brown** | gerund | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past · perfect · passive | | story | | English | | in books | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **know** | participle | | | | | | as Verstegan's Restitution | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer as restitution=Attribute | | 4 | **see** | infinitive | Howell's Familiar Letters | my edition and n | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer edition=Stimulus | | 5 | **restitute** | | Verstegan | | | | | | nom restitution «possession transitive»: poss=agent | | 6 | **letter** | | Howell | | | | | | nom letter «communication transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/8/) - ↑ back to [XLIV. the Pied Piper](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/35/)