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title: _--The artificial character of the incident is sufficient to prevent… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The artificial character of the incident is sufficient to prevent its having occurred in reality or to more than one inventive imagination. Who acts: artificial character, character. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, with its dependency tree
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 16

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\_--The artificial character of the incident is sufficient to prevent its having occurred in reality or to more than one inventive imagination.

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**Who acts:** artificial character, character · **What happens:** be, prevent, have, occur · **To what, where:** reality

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (artificial character, character), 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:pg14241:54:16
# text = _--The artificial character of the incident is sufficient to prevent its having occurred in reality or to more than one inventive imagination.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	artificial	artificial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	incident	incident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	ccomp	_	_
15	occurred	occur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	reality	reality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	22	advmod	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
23	inventive	inventive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the artificial character of the incident |  |  |  |  | sufficient *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | the artificial character of the incident *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | character |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **occur** | participle | character *not said here* |  |  | reality or one inventive imagination |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in reality=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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