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title: "Mercy me!" she cried, and jumped back to the other side of the road… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Mercy me!" she cried, and jumped back to the other side of the road; "_if it is fit brim full o' gold_ PIECES!!" Who acts: Mercy, road. 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 102

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"Mercy me!" she cried, and jumped back to the other side of the road; "\_if it is fit brim full o' gold\_ PIECES!!"

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**Who acts:** Mercy, road · **What happens:** cry, jump back, be · **To what, where:** PIECES, fit brim · **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 (Mercy, road), 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:pg14241:19:102
# text = "Mercy me!" she cried, and jumped back to the other side of the road; "_if it is fit brim full o' gold_ PIECES!!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	back	back	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	brim	brim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
27	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	32	punct	_	_
32	PIECES	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!!	!!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Mercy | PIECES |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **jump back** | past | Mercy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the other side of the road *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to side=Result |
| 3 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | road | fit brim and full o and gold |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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