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title: The ballad was known before Percy, as it is mentioned in the _Specta… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The ballad was known before Percy, as it is mentioned in the _Spectator_, Nos. 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 13

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The ballad was known before Percy, as it is mentioned in the \_Spectator\_, Nos.

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**What happens:** know, mention · **To what, where:** ballad, place, Spectator

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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:pg14241:59:13
# text = The ballad was known before Percy, as it is mentioned in the _Spectator_, Nos.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	before	before	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Percy	Percy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Spectator	spectator	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Nos	Nos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past · passive |  | the ballad |  |  | before Percy | Nos *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | place |  | the Spectator |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |

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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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