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title: The taboo against taking food in the underworld occurs in the myth o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The taboo against taking food in the underworld occurs in the myth of Proserpine, and is also frequent in folk-tales (Child, i. 322). Who acts: taboo. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 13

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The taboo against taking food in the underworld occurs in the myth of Proserpine, and is also frequent in folk-tales (Child, i. 322).

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**Who acts:** taboo · **What happens:** take, occur, be · **To what, where:** food, underworld, myth, folk tales

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (taboo), 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:pg7439:71:13
# text = The taboo against taking food in the underworld occurs in the myth of Proserpine, and is also frequent in folk-tales (Child, i. 322).
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	taboo	taboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	against	against	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	underworld	underworld	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	occurs	occur	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	myth	myth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Proserpine	Proserpine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	also	also	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	i.	i.	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	28	nsubj	_	_
28	322	322	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund | the taboo *not said here* | food |  | the underworld |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent food=Value in underworld=Location |
| 2 | **occur** | present | the taboo |  |  | the myth of Proserpine |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in myth=Location |
| 3 | **is** | present |  |  |  | folk tales and Child |  | frequent *property* | tree rules |

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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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