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title: According to a writer in _3 Notes and Queries_, ix., 144, the tradit… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: According to a writer in _3 Notes and Queries_, ix., 144, the traditional burial-place of the children is pointed out in Norfolk. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood, sentence 12

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According to a writer in \_3 Notes and Queries\_, ix., 144, the traditional burial-place of the children is pointed out in Norfolk.

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**What happens:** accord, point out

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXVIII. the Children in the Wood. 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:pg14241:59:12
# text = According to a writer in _3 Notes and Queries_, ix., 144, the traditional burial-place of the children is pointed out in Norfolk.
1	According	accord	VERB	VBG	ExtPos=ADP|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	3	3	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	Notes	note	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Queries	query	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	ix	ix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	144	144	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	burial	burial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	pointed	point	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **point out** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  | accord a writer in 3 Notes and Queries and ix and the traditional burial place of the children; in Norfolk | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: in norfolk=Theme |

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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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