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title: That some such story was current in England in Shakespeare's time, i… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That some such story was current in England in Shakespeare's time, is proved by that curious _mélange_ of nursery tales, Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_. Who acts: That. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 23

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That some such story was current in England in Shakespeare's time, is proved by that curious \_mélange\_ of nursery tales, Peele's \_The Old Wives' Tale\_.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** be, prove · **To what, where:** England, mélange \_

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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 (That), 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:pg7439:71:23
# text = That some such story was current in England in Shakespeare's time, is proved by that curious _mélange_ of nursery tales, Peele's _The Old Wives' Tale_.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
3	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	current	current	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	Shakespeare	Shakespeare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	proved	prove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
18	curious	curious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	mélange	mélange	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	nursery	nursery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Peele	Peele	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	's	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	'	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	Tale	Tale	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | That |  |  | England in Shakespeare's time |  | the Old Wives's Tale *obl*; current *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **prove** | present · passive |  | mélange \_ of nursery tales 's Peele |  |  |  | by curious | 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:** «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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