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title: _--Notwithstanding Mrs. Balfour's informant, the same tale is widely… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Notwithstanding Mrs. Balfour's informant, the same tale is widely spread in the North Country. 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 5

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\_--Notwithstanding Mrs. Balfour's informant, the same tale is widely spread in the North Country.

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**What happens:** notwithstand, spread · **To what, where:** informant, same tale, North Country

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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:pg14241:38:5
# text = _--Notwithstanding Mrs. Balfour's informant, the same tale is widely spread in the North Country.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	_
5	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
7	informant	informant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
13	widely	widely	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notwithstand** | gerund |  | Mrs.'s informant |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **spread** | present · passive |  | the same tale |  | the North Country |  | widely *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=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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