---
title: The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" st… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxiv.), and considering the wide spread of this in the British Isles, it was possibly from this source that it came to Deptford. Who acts: incident. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph J
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/11/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [L. the Three Feathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/) / 11

# More English Fairy Tales, L. the Three Feathers, sentence 11

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (\_Celtic Fairy Tales\_, No. xxiv.), and considering the wide spread of this in the British Isles, it was possibly from this source that it came to Deptford.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** incident · **What happens:** occur, consider, be, come, spread · **To what, where:** versions, wide spread, British Isles, source, Deptford, this

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, L. the Three Feathers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (incident), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg14241:41:11
# text = The incident occurs in some versions of the "Battle of the Birds" story (_Celtic Fairy Tales_, No. xxiv.), and considering the wide spread of this in the British Isles, it was possibly from this source that it came to Deptford.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
15	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Celtic	celtic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	No.	no.	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	xxiv	xxiv	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	considering	consider	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	spread	spread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	nmod	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	British	British	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	Isles	Isle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
40	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
42	possibly	possibly	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	from	from	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	45	det	_	_
45	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
46	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
48	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
49	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	Deptford	Deptford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | the incident |  |  | some versions of the Battle |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in version=Location |
| 2 | **consider** | gerund | the incident *not said here* | the wide spread of this |  | the British Isles |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent spread=Attribute |
| 3 | **is** | past | incident |  |  | this source |  | possibly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | incident |  |  | Deptford |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to deptford=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **spread** |  |  | this |  |  |  |  | nom spread «event transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/10/)
- next →: [LI. Sir Gammer Vans, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/42/1/)
- ↑ back to [L. the Three Feathers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/41/)