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title: But now she saw her sweetheart coming through the crowd, and he held… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But now she saw her sweetheart coming through the crowd, and he held over his head in the air her own golden ball; so she said: Who acts: hangman, sweetheart, father. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 34

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But now she saw her sweetheart coming through the crowd, and he held over his head in the air her own golden ball; so she said:

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**Who acts:** hangman, sweetheart, father · **What happens:** see, come, hold, say · **To what, where:** sweetheart, crowd, head · **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 (hangman, sweetheart, father), 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:pg14241:16:34
# text = But now she saw her sweetheart coming through the crowd, and he held over his head in the air her own golden ball; so she said:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	sweetheart	sweetheart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | hangman | hangman's sweetheart |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sweetheart=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | gerund | hangman's sweetheart *not said here* |  |  | the crowd |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through crowd=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hold** | past | father |  |  | father's head |  | in the air  hangman's own golden ball | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over head=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hangman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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