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title: It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adap… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 17

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It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham.

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**What happens:** bring, adapt · **To what, where:** character, Europe, East, local conditions

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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: 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:pg14241:54:17
# text = It must therefore have been brought to Europe from the East and adapted to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	East	East	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	adapted	adapt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	local	local	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	conditions	condition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Dort	Dort	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	Swaffham	Swaffham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **bring** | must · perfect · passive |  | character | Europe | the East |  | therefore *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme to europe=Destination from east=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **adapt** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to local conditions at Dort and Swaffham *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to condition=Goal |

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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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