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title: _--The tradition is widespread that at the foot of the rainbow treas… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--The tradition is widespread that at the foot of the rainbow treasure is to be found; _cf. Who acts: tradition. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky, sentence 5

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\_--The tradition is widespread that at the foot of the rainbow treasure is to be found; \_cf.

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**Who acts:** tradition · **What happens:** be, find · **To what, where:** foot

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXVI. the Stars in the Sky. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tradition), 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:pg14241:69:5
# text = _--The tradition is widespread that at the foot of the rainbow treasure is to be found; _cf.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	widespread	widespread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	cf	cf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the tradition |  |  |  |  | widespread *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | present · passive | the tradition *not said here* |  |  | the foot of the rainbow treasure |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF» |

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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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