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title: All such things may have happened and bear no such _à priori_ marks… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All such things may have happened and bear no such _à priori_ marks of impossibility as speaking animals, flying through the air, and similar incidents of the folk-tale pure and simple. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXI. Childe Rowland., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# English Fairy Tales, XXI. Childe Rowland., sentence 61

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All such things may have happened and bear no such \_à priori\_ marks of impossibility as speaking animals, flying through the air, and similar incidents of the folk-tale pure and simple.

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**What happens:** happen, bear, speak, fly, mark · **To what, where:** such things, such priori, animals, air, impossibility · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg7439:71:61
# text = All such things may have happened and bear no such _à priori_ marks of impossibility as speaking animals, flying through the air, and similar incidents of the folk-tale pure and simple.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	aux	_	_
6	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	à	à	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	priori	priori	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
15	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	impossibility	impossibility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	conj	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
28	similar	similar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	incidents	incident	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
35	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	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 | **happen** | may · perfect · passive |  | all such things |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bear** | infinitive |  | no such priori |  |  |  | marks of impossibility *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priori=Patient |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund |  | animals |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  | the air |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through air=Location |
| 5 | **mark** |  |  | impossibility |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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