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title: Last Sunday morning at six o'clock in the evening as I was sailing o… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 75

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Last Sunday morning at six o'clock in the evening as I was sailing over the tops of the mountains in my little boat, I met two men on horseback riding on one mare: So I asked them, "Could they tell me whether the little old woman was dead yet who was hanged last Saturday week for drowning herself in a shower of feathers?"

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**Who acts:** I, mountains, little old woman · **What happens:** sail, meet, ask, tell, be, hange · **To what, where:** six o'clock, tops, two men, horseback riding, mountains, me · **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 (I, mountains, little old woman), 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:pg14241:18:75
# text = Last Sunday morning at six o'clock in the evening as I was sailing over the tops of the mountains in my little boat, I met two men on horseback riding on one mare: So I asked them, "Could they tell me whether the little old woman was dead yet who was hanged last Saturday week for drowning herself in a shower of feathers?"
1	Last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	sailing	sail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	acl	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	boat	boat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
25	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	riding	riding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	mare	mare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	So	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	ccomp	_	_
45	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	iobj	_	_
46	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	56	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	hanged	hange	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	44	ccomp	_	_
57	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
58	Saturday	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	_
59	week	week	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
60	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
61	drowning	drown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
62	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	61	obj	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
66	of	of	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	44	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past · progressive | I | six o'clock in the evening *not said here* |  | the tops of the mountains |  | in my little boat | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent o'clock=Theme over top=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | I | two men |  | horseback riding on one mare | morning |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | I |  | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | could | mountains *= mountain* |  | me |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the little old woman |  |  |  | yet | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **hange** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | dead |  |  | week |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **drown** *in a quote* | gerund |  | mare |  | a shower of feathers |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient |

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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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