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title: _--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in Englan… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in England: (1) Halliwell, _Pop. Who acts: quaint legend. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXIV. King O' Cats, sentence 5

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\_--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in England: (1) Halliwell, \_Pop.

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**Who acts:** quaint legend · **What happens:** collect, vary · **To what, where:** Five variants, England

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXIV. King O' Cats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quaint legend), 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:pg14241:67:5
# text = _--Five variants of this quaint legend have been collected in England: (1) Halliwell, _Pop.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	variants	variant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
7	quaint	quaint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
18	Halliwell	Halliwell	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Pop	Pop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** | present · perfect · passive |  | Five variants of this quaint legend |  | England |  | 1 *obl*; Halliwell  \_ Pop *obl* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **vary** |  | this quaint legend |  |  |  |  |  | nom variant «event intransitive»: of=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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