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title: But to make a long story short, when the seven years and a day were… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 68

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But to make a long story short, when the seven years and a day were up, the bird-husband, who had known her doings all along, came after her, restored to his own shape again.

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**Who acts:** seven years · **What happens:** make, be, know, come, restore · **To what, where:** long story, bird husband, own shape

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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 (seven years), 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:pg14241:18:68
# text = But to make a long story short, when the seven years and a day were up, the bird-husband, who had known her doings all along, came after her, restored to his own shape again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
9	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	parataxis	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	doings	doing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	all	all	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	along	along	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
33	after	after	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	restored	restore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
39	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	again	again	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | a long story |  |  |  | short *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset story=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the seven years and a day | the bird husband |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **know** | past · perfect · passive |  | the bird husband |  |  |  | along *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | after girl |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **restore** | past |  |  | husband's own shape |  | again |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to shape=Recipient |

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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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