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title: It probably existed in one of the versions of _Nix Nought Nothing_ (… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It probably existed in one of the versions of _Nix Nought Nothing_ (No. vii.). Who acts: reference. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway, sentence 10

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It probably existed in one of the versions of \_Nix Nought Nothing\_ (No. vii.).

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**Who acts:** reference · **What happens:** exist · **To what, where:** vii

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLVIII. the Black Bull of Norroway. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reference), 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:pg14241:39:10
# text = It probably existed in one of the versions of _Nix Nought Nothing_ (No. vii.).
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Nix	Nix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	nmod	_	_
13	Nothing	Nothing	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	vii	vii	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | past | reference | no. vii |  |  |  | in one of the versions of Nought; probably *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=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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