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title: _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in _Folk-Lore_… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in _Folk-Lore_, ii. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIX. Yallery Brown, sentence 2

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\_--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in \_Folk-Lore\_, ii.

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIX. Yallery Brown. 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:pg14241:40:2
# text = _--Mrs. Balfour's "Legends of the Lincolnshire Fens," in _Folk-Lore_, ii.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Fens	Fen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ii	II	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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