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title: Naturally he wondered where the stone might be, and he looked again,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Naturally he wondered where the stone might be, and he looked again, and there by the hedge bottom was a great flat stone, nigh buried in the mools, and hid in the cotted grass and weeds. Who acts: whimpering, stone, hedge bottom. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More Engli
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 50

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Naturally he wondered where the stone might be, and he looked again, and there by the hedge bottom was a great flat stone, nigh buried in the mools, and hid in the cotted grass and weeds.

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**Who acts:** whimpering, stone, hedge bottom · **What happens:** wonder, be, look, bury, hide, cot · **To what, where:** great flat stone, mools, cotted grass · **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 (whimpering, stone, hedge bottom), 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:pg14241:17:50
# text = Naturally he wondered where the stone might be, and he looked again, and there by the hedge bottom was a great flat stone, nigh buried in the mools, and hid in the cotted grass and weeds.
1	Naturally	naturally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	wondered	wonder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	hedge	hedge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	flat	flat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	mools	mool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	cotted	cot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	amod	_	_
38	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | past | whimpering |  |  |  |  | naturally *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | might | the stone |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | past | stone |  |  |  | again |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | the hedge bottom |  |  |  |  | by a great flat stone | tree rules |
| 5 | **bury** | participle |  | a great flat stone *not said here* |  | the mools |  | nigh *property* | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mool=Destination |
| 6 | **hide** | past | whimpering *not said here* |  |  | the cotted grass and weeds |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in grass=Location |
| 7 | **cot** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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