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title: Hearne, p. 299, in this there is a double treasure; the first in an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Hearne, p. 299, in this there is a double treasure; the first in an iron pot with a Latin inscription, which the pedlar, whose name is John Chapman, does not understand. Who acts: Hearne, Latin inscription, name, John. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of S
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 4

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Hearne, p. 299, in this there is a double treasure; the first in an iron pot with a Latin inscription, which the pedlar, whose name is John Chapman, does not understand.

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**Who acts:** Hearne, Latin inscription, name, John · **What happens:** be, pedlar, not understand, name · **To what, where:** John

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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 (Hearne, Latin inscription, name, John), 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:pg14241:54:4
# text = Hearne, p. 299, in this there is a double treasure; the first in an iron pot with a Latin inscription, which the pedlar, whose name is John Chapman, does not understand.
1	Hearne	Hearne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	299	299	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	nmod	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	inscription	inscription	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	John	John	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
33	Chapman	Chapman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	37	advmod	_	_
37	understand	understand	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | Hearne in this |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pedlar** |  | a Latin inscription and the pedlar |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | present | John's name | John |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **understand** | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **name** |  | John |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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