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title: At that his mother burst into tears, and went off to bed in despair,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At that his mother burst into tears, and went off to bed in despair, certain that after such words something dreadful would happen; while her naughty little son sat on his stool by the fire, not at all put out by her crying. Who acts: mother, something dreadful, naughty little son. A sentence of «Mo
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 51

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At that his mother burst into tears, and went off to bed in despair, certain that after such words something dreadful would happen; while her naughty little son sat on his stool by the fire, not at all put out by her crying.

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**Who acts:** mother, something dreadful, naughty little son · **What happens:** burst, go off, happen, sit, not put out, cry · **To what, where:** tears, despair, stool, all

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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 (mother, something dreadful, naughty little son), 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:pg14241:16:51
# text = At that his mother burst into tears, and went off to bed in despair, certain that after such words something dreadful would happen; while her naughty little son sat on his stool by the fire, not at all put out by her crying.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	burst	burst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	after	after	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
22	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	23	compound	_	_
23	dreadful	dreadful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	naughty	naughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	stool	stool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
40	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	43	advmod	_	_
41	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
42	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
43	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	_
44	out	out	ADP	RP	_	43	compound:prt	_	_
45	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	47	mark	_	_
46	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past | boy's mother |  |  | tears |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go off** | past | boy's mother *not said here* |  |  | despair |  | to bed | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in despair=Location |
| 3 | **happen** | would | something dreadful |  |  |  | after such words |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | past | wind's naughty little son |  |  | boy's stool |  | by the fire | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on stool=Location |
| 5 | **not** **put out** | participle · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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