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title: _ One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm's “Town Mus… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _ One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm's “Town Musicians of Bremen” (No. 27). A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune., sentence 4

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\_ One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm's “Town Musicians of Bremen” (No. 27).

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**What happens:** derive · **To what, where:** Town Musicians

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, V. How Jack Sought His Fortune.. 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:pg7439:55:4
# text = _ One of these, however, was probably derived from Grimm's “Town Musicians of Bremen” (No. 27).
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	derived	derive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	Grimm	Grimm	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Town	town	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Musicians	Musician	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Bremen	Bremen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
20	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
22	27	27	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **derive** | past · passive |  |  |  | Grimm's Town Musicians of Bremen |  | however, probably *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: from musician=Material |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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