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title: The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.). — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.). Who acts: man. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Golden Ball, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVI. the Golden Ball, sentence 6

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The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.).

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** occur

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVI. the Golden Ball. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg14241:37:6
# text = The man in instalments occurs in "The Strange Visitor" (No. xxxii.).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	instalments	instalment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	Visitor	visitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	xxxii	xxxii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the man in instalments |  |  |  |  | in the Strange Visitor | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in visitor=Location |

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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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