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title: Well, one summer evening as she was trotting away homewards, she cam… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, one summer evening as she was trotting away homewards, she came upon a big black pot lying at the side of the road. Who acts: woman, big black pot. 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 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 94

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Well, one summer evening as she was trotting away homewards, she came upon a big black pot lying at the side of the road.

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**Who acts:** woman, big black pot · **What happens:** trot away, come, lie · **To what, where:** homewards, big black pot, side

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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 (woman, big black pot), 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:pg14241:19:94
# text = Well, one summer evening as she was trotting away homewards, she came upon a big black pot lying at the side of the road.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	trotting	trot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	homewards	homeward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trot away** | past · progressive | woman | homewards |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent homeward=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | woman |  |  | a big black pot | evening |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon pot=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | a big black pot *not said here* |  |  | the side of the road |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at side=Location |

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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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