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title: It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore. Who acts: xiii. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVII. a Son of Adam, sentence 7

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It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.

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**Who acts:** xiii · **What happens:** occur · **To what, where:** Swift

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVII. a Son of Adam. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (xiii), 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:pg14241:58:7
# text = It occurs in Swift and in modern Italian folk-lore.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Swift	Swift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
8	Italian	Italian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	lore	lore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | xiii |  |  | Swift and modern Italian folk lore |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in swift=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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