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title: He parallels the marriage of Peleus and Thetis in Apollodorus III.,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He parallels the marriage of Peleus and Thetis in Apollodorus III., xiii., 5, 6, which still persists in modern Greece as a Cretan ballad. Who acts: Tamlane. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXV. Tamlane, sentence 8

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He parallels the marriage of Peleus and Thetis in Apollodorus III., xiii., 5, 6, which still persists in modern Greece as a Cretan ballad.

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**Who acts:** Tamlane · **What happens:** parallel, persist, marry · **To what, where:** marriage, Apollodorus, modern Greece, Peleus

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXV. Tamlane. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tamlane), 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:pg14241:68:8
# text = He parallels the marriage of Peleus and Thetis in Apollodorus III., xiii., 5, 6, which still persists in modern Greece as a Cretan ballad.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	parallels	parallel	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marriage	marriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Peleus	Peleus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Thetis	Thetis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Apollodorus	Apollodorus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	III	III	NUM	CD	NumForm=Roman|NumType=Card	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	xiii	xiii	NUM	LS	_	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	5	5	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	6	6	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	persists	persist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Greece	Greece	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Cretan	Cretan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **parallel** | present | Tamlane | the marriage of Peleus and Thetis |  | Apollodorus |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **persist** | present |  |  |  | modern Greece | still | as a Cretan ballad | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in greece=Location |
| 3 | **marry** |  |  | Peleus and Thetis |  |  |  |  | nom marriage «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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