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title: But then it 'd do fine to put a flower in for the window; I'm thinki… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But then it 'd do fine to put a flower in for the window; I'm thinking I'll just take it home, anyways." Who acts: pot, I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 100

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But then it 'd do fine to put a flower in for the window; I'm thinking I'll just take it home, anyways."

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**Who acts:** pot, I · **What happens:** do, put, think, take · **To what, where:** fine, flower, window, pot · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pot, I), 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:pg14241:19:100
# text = But then it 'd do fine to put a flower in for the window; I'm thinking I'll just take it home, anyways."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	csubj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	anyways	anyways	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | would | pot | fine |  |  | then |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fine=Eventuality |
| 2 | **put** | to-infinitive |  | a flower |  | the window |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme in window=Destination |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | future | I | pot |  |  |  | anyways, home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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