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title: Clearer than ever, but tired and spent with greeting came the little… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Clearer than ever, but tired and spent with greeting came the little sobbing voice--"Ooh! ooh! the stone, the stone on top." Who acts: tired. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 53

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Clearer than ever, but tired and spent with greeting came the little sobbing voice--"Ooh! ooh! the stone, the stone on top."

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**Who acts:** tired · **What happens:** spend, come · **To what, where:** little sobbing voice

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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 (tired), 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:pg14241:17:53
# text = Clearer than ever, but tired and spent with greeting came the little sobbing voice--"Ooh! ooh! the stone, the stone on top."
1	Clearer	clear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
2	than	than	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	greeting	greeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	sobbing	sobbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Ooh	ooh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
20	ooh	ooh	INTJ	UH	_	1	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | participle | tired *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with greeting | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | tired | the little sobbing voice |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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