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title: In the morning, when they brought the Bull home, they took the lady… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the morning, when they brought the Bull home, they took the lady into a fine shining parlour, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in the world, and that would bring her out of it. Who acts: daughters, fine, lady, that. A 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 100

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In the morning, when they brought the Bull home, they took the lady into a fine shining parlour, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in the world, and that would bring her out of it.

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**Who acts:** daughters, fine, lady, that · **What happens:** bring, take, shine, give, tell, not break · **To what, where:** Bull, lady, fine, parlour, beautiful apple, apple · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughters, fine, lady, 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:pg14241:16:100
# text = In the morning, when they brought the Bull home, they took the lady into a fine shining parlour, and gave her a beautiful apple, telling her not to break it till she was in the greatest strait ever mortal was in the world, and that would bring her out of it.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fine	fine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
19	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	_
20	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	41	amod	_	_
41	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	advcl	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	cop	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	nsubj	_	_
51	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	out	out	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | daughters *= daughter* |  | the Bull |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument bull=Destination |
| 2 | **take** | past | daughters *= daughter* | the lady |  | a fine | morning |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into fine=Destination |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a fine *not said here* | parlour |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent parlour=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | a beautiful apple | lady |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient apple=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* |  | lady |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **not** **break** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | daughters *= daughter* *not said here* | apple |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient |
| 7 | **is** | past | lady |  |  | the greatest strait |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past |  |  |  | the mortal world |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **bring** | would | that | lady |  | world |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent she=Theme out it=Initial\_Location |

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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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