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title: The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and he is there represented as a village Hampden who withstood the tyranny of the local lord of the manor. Who acts: village. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift, with its dependency tree and 
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# More English Fairy Tales, LII. Tom Hickathrift, sentence 18

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The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and he is there represented as a village Hampden who withstood the tyranny of the local lord of the manor.

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**Who acts:** village · **What happens:** give, represent, withstand · **To what, where:** name, Hickifric, tyranny

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LII. Tom Hickathrift. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (village), 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:pg14241:43:18
# text = The name in these versions of the legend is given as Hickifric, and he is there represented as a village Hampden who withstood the tyranny of the local lord of the manor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	versions	version	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Hickifric	Hickifric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	Hampden	Hampden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	withstood	withstand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tyranny	tyranny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | present · passive |  | the name in this versions of the legend |  |  |  | as Hickifric | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | present · passive |  | Hickifric |  | there |  | as a village | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as village=Attribute |
| 3 | **withstand** | past | a village | the tyranny of the local lord of the manor |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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