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title: Yet they existed in England, for Miss Isabella Barclay, in a variant… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet they existed in England, for Miss Isabella Barclay, in a variant which Miss Cox has overlooked (_Folk-Lore_, i., _l.c. Who acts: motifs. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXXXIII. Catskin, sentence 13

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Yet they existed in England, for Miss Isabella Barclay, in a variant which Miss Cox has overlooked (\_Folk-Lore\_, i., \_l.c.

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**Who acts:** motifs · **What happens:** exist, overlook · **To what, where:** England, variant

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXXXIII. Catskin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (motifs), 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:pg14241:76:13
# text = Yet they existed in England, for Miss Isabella Barclay, in a variant which Miss Cox has overlooked (_Folk-Lore_, i., _l.c.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	existed	exist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Isabella	Isabella	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	Barclay	Barclay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	variant	variant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	Miss	Miss	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	Cox	Cox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Lore	Lore	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	24	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	l.c	l.c	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | past | motifs *= motif* |  |  | England |  | in a variant | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in england=Location |
| 2 | **overlook** | present · perfect · passive |  | a variant |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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