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description: She bargained as before; and the old wife, as before, took in the sleeping drink to the young knight's chamber; but he told her he couldn't drink it that night without sweetening. Who acts: damsel, old wife, knight. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales,
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 31

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She bargained as before; and the old wife, as before, took in the sleeping drink to the young knight's chamber; but he told her he couldn't drink it that night without sweetening.

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**Who acts:** damsel, old wife, knight · **What happens:** bargain, take, tell, not drink, sweeten · **To what, where:** sleeping drink, damsel, chamber · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (damsel, 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:pg14241:17:31
# text = She bargained as before; and the old wife, as before, took in the sleeping drink to the young knight's chamber; but he told her he couldn't drink it that night without sweetening.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bargained	bargain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	before	before	ADV	RB	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
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	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	before	before	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sleeping	sleeping	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	iobj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	drink	drink	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl:unmarked	_	_
37	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
38	sweetening	sweeten	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bargain** | past | damsel |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | past | the old wife |  |  | the sleeping drink |  | to the young knight's chamber *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to chamber=Result |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | knight |  | damsel |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **drink** | could | knight | chamber |  |  | night |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **sweeten** | gerund | knight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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