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title: If this is so, we may here have one more incident of the great North… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: If this is so, we may here have one more incident of the great Northern beast epic of bear and fox, on which Prof. Who acts: this, we. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXII. Scrapefoot, sentence 12

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If this is so, we may here have one more incident of the great Northern beast epic of bear and fox, on which Prof.

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**Who acts:** this, we · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** one more incident

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXII. Scrapefoot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, we), 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:pg14241:53:12
# text = If this is so, we may here have one more incident of the great Northern beast epic of bear and fox, on which Prof.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
7	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	Northern	Northern	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	epic	epic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	bear	bear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	obl	_	_
26	Prof	Prof	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | may | we | one more incident of the great Northern beast epic of bear and fox |  | here |  | Prof *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incident=Patient |

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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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