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title: All went well for a bit, till one day when she had brewed her ale an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: All went well for a bit, till one day when she had brewed her ale and put it in the barrel, a big black dog came in and looked up in her face. Who acts: big black dog. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 94

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All went well for a bit, till one day when she had brewed her ale and put it in the barrel, a big black dog came in and looked up in her face.

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**Who acts:** big black dog · **What happens:** go, brew, put, come in, look up · **To what, where:** mother, ale, barrel

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (big black dog), 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:pg14241:15:94
# text = All went well for a bit, till one day when she had brewed her ale and put it in the barrel, a big black dog came in and looked up in her face.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	brewed	brew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	barrel	barrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for a bit; well *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for bit=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **brew** | past · perfect · passive |  | mother |  |  | day |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary ale=Product |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive |  | ale |  | the barrel |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in barrel=Destination |
| 4 | **come in** | past | a big black dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **look up** | past | a big black dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in mother's face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in face=Theme |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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