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title: Jevons has heard it in the neighbourhood of Durham; while a further… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Jevons has heard it in the neighbourhood of Durham; while a further version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Country Folk-Lore_. Who acts: Jevons, further version. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVII. My Own Self, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVII. My Own Self, sentence 7

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Jevons has heard it in the neighbourhood of Durham; while a further version appeared in \_Monthly Chronicle of North Country Folk-Lore\_.

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**Who acts:** Jevons, further version · **What happens:** hear, appear · **To what, where:** informant, neighbourhood, \_ Monthly Chronicle

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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: who acts (Jevons, further version), 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:pg14241:38:7
# text = Jevons has heard it in the neighbourhood of Durham; while a further version appeared in _Monthly Chronicle of North Country Folk-Lore_.
1	Jevons	Jevons	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Durham	Durham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Monthly	Monthly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Chronicle	Chronicle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	Folk	Folk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | present · perfect | Jevons | informant |  | the neighbourhood of Durham |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **appear** | past | a further version |  |  | \_ Monthly Chronicle of North Country |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chronicle=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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