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title: The butler put in, "That was nothing to what she served me," and he… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The butler put in, "That was nothing to what she served me," and he told of the shutters clapping all night. Who acts: That, girl, butler, shutters. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 62

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The butler put in, "That was nothing to what she served me," and he told of the shutters clapping all night.

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**Who acts:** That, girl, butler, shutters · **What happens:** put in, be, serve, tell, clap · **To what, where:** butler, nothing · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, girl, butler, shutters), 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:pg14241:18:62
# text = The butler put in, "That was nothing to what she served me," and he told of the shutters clapping all night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	butler	butler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	2	appos	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	shutters	shutter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	clapping	clap	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put in** | participle |  | the butler *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | That | nothing |  |  |  | to the butler | tree rules |
| 3 | **serve** *in a quote* | past | girl | the butler *= butler* |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the butler |  |  |  |  | of the shutters | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **clap** | gerund | the shutters *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «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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