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title: That being the third night and the damsel being between hope and des… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: That being the third night and the damsel being between hope and despair, she broke her plum, and it held far the richest jewellery of the three. Who acts: That, damsel, plum. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and th
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 30

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That being the third night and the damsel being between hope and despair, she broke her plum, and it held far the richest jewellery of the three.

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**Who acts:** That, damsel, plum · **What happens:** be, break, hold · **To what, where:** third night, plum, richest jewellery

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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 (That, damsel, plum), 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:pg14241:17:30
# text = That being the third night and the damsel being between hope and despair, she broke her plum, and it held far the richest jewellery of the three.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
10	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	plum	plum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
23	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	jewellery	jewellery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | That | the third night and hope and despair |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the damsel |  |  |  |  | between hope and despair | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past | damsel | damsel's plum |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plum=Patient |
| 4 | **hold** | past | plum | the richest jewellery of the three |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewellery=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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