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title: Weeping over her ill-success, the old nurse went to look for Tatterc… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Weeping over her ill-success, the old nurse went to look for Tattercoats; but the girl had been turned from the door by the cook, and had run away to tell her friend the gooseherd, how unhappy she was because she could not go to the King's ball. Who acts: old nurse, cook, girl. A sentence of «More E
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 100

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Weeping over her ill-success, the old nurse went to look for Tattercoats; but the girl had been turned from the door by the cook, and had run away to tell her friend the gooseherd, how unhappy she was because she could not go to the King's ball.

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**Who acts:** old nurse, cook, girl · **What happens:** weep, go, look, turn, run away, tell · **To what, where:** ill success, girl, door, gooseherd, friend · **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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old nurse, cook, girl), 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:pg14241:20:100
# text = Weeping over her ill-success, the old nurse went to look for Tattercoats; but the girl had been turned from the door by the cook, and had run away to tell her friend the gooseherd, how unhappy she was because she could not go to the King's ball.
1	Weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	over	over	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Tattercoats	tattercoat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
33	away	away	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
36	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	gooseherd	gooseherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	42	advmod	_	_
42	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	acl	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
45	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
48	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
49	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	's	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | gerund | the old nurse *not said here* |  |  | horse's ill success |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | the old nurse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the old nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Tattercoats | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tattercoat=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past · perfect · passive | the cook | the girl |  | the door |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from door=Trajectory |
| 5 | **run away** | past · perfect | the old nurse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the old nurse *not said here* | the gooseherd | horse's friend |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient gooseherd=Topic |
| 7 | **not** **is** | could · past | girl |  |  |  |  | to the King's ball; go *property* | 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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