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title: It occurs also in the curious play of Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It occurs also in the curious play of Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_, in which one of the characters is the Ghost of Jack. Who acts: hero, one, Peele. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer., sentence 22

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It occurs also in the curious play of Peele's \_The Old Wives' Tale\_, in which one of the characters is the Ghost of Jack.

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**Who acts:** hero, one, Peele · **What happens:** occur, be, play · **To what, where:** curious play, Ghost

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XIX. Jack the Giant-killer.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hero, one, Peele), 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:pg7439:69:22
# text = It occurs also in the curious play of Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_, in which one of the characters is the Ghost of Jack.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	play	play	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Peele	Peele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Ghost	Ghost	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **occur** | present | hero |  |  | the curious play of Peele |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in play=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | present | which one of the characters | the Ghost |  |  |  | of Jack | tree rules |
| 3 | **play** |  | Peele |  |  |  |  |  | nom play «communication 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:** «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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