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title: The lady consented; but meanwhile the old wife had prepared a sleepi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lady consented; but meanwhile the old wife had prepared a sleeping drink, and given it to the knight who drank it, and never wakened till next morning. Who acts: lady, old wife, knight. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependen
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 19

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The lady consented; but meanwhile the old wife had prepared a sleeping drink, and given it to the knight who drank it, and never wakened till next morning.

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**Who acts:** lady, old wife, knight · **What happens:** consent, prepare, give, drink, not waken · **To what, where:** sleeping drink, drink, knight

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady, old wife, knight), 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:pg14241:17:19
# text = The lady consented; but meanwhile the old wife had prepared a sleeping drink, and given it to the knight who drank it, and never wakened till next morning.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consented	consent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	wakened	waken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
29	till	till	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **consent** | participle | the lady |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **prepare** | past · perfect | the old wife | a sleeping drink |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drink=Patient |
| 3 | **give** | participle | the old wife *not said here* | drink | the knight |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to knight=Recipient |
| 4 | **drink** | past | the knight | drink |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **waken** | participle | the lady *not said here* |  |  |  | morning |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:** «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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