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title: So the girl washed the skin in the stream, took the wool from it, an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the girl washed the skin in the stream, took the wool from it, and paid him the value of it, and gave him the skin to carry back. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 38

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So the girl washed the skin in the stream, took the wool from it, and paid him the value of it, and gave him the skin to carry back.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** wash, take, pay, give, carry back, value · **To what, where:** skin, stream, wool, father

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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 (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:pg14241:20:38
# text = So the girl washed the skin in the stream, took the wool from it, and paid him the value of it, and gave him the skin to carry back.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	washed	wash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wool	wool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	value	value	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	iobj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	back	back	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wash** | past | the girl | the skin |  | the stream |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | the girl *not said here* | the wool |  | skin |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent wool=Theme from it=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **pay** | past | the girl *not said here* |  | father |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient value=Asset |
| 4 | **give** | past | the girl *not said here* | the skin | father |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient skin=Theme |
| 5 | **carry back** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **value** |  |  | skin |  |  |  |  | nom value «cognition transitive»: of=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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