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title: The fact of Continental parallels disposes of the possibility of its… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fact of Continental parallels disposes of the possibility of its being a merely local legend. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 14

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The fact of Continental parallels disposes of the possibility of its being a merely local legend.

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**What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg14241:38:14
# text = The fact of Continental parallels disposes of the possibility of its being a merely local legend.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Continental	continental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	parallels	parallel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	compound	_	_
6	disposes	dispose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	possibility	possibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
14	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of possibility's local legend | tree rules |

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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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