--- title: Well, one day the butler, who had a notion to have the pretty laundr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, one day the butler, who had a notion to have the pretty laundry-maid for his wife, said to her, he should have spoken before but he did not want to vex her. " Who acts: butler, friend. 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" **Who acts:** butler, friend · **What happens:** have, say, speak, not want, vex · **To what, where:** notion, pretty laundry maid, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (butler, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:18:34 # text = Well, one day the butler, who had a notion to have the pretty laundry-maid for his wife, said to her, he should have spoken before but he did not want to vex her. " 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 butler butler NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 notion notion NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 acl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 pretty pretty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 16 laundry laundry NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux _ _ 30 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 parataxis _ _ 31 before before ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 want want VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 vex vex VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the butler | a notion | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notion=Patient | | 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | the butler *not said here* | the pretty laundry maid | | | | for friend's wife | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the butler *not said here* | | girl | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | should · perfect | friend | | | | | before *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **want** | past · do-support | friend | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **vex** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | friend *not said here* | girl | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/35/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/)