--- title: But he only frowned and told her to be silent, while the servants la… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But he only frowned and told her to be silent, while the servants laughed and said: "Tattercoats is happy in her rags, playing with the gooseherd, let her be--it is all she is fit for." Who acts: king, servants, Tattercoats, horse. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More Engl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/98/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/) / 98 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 98 But he only frowned and told her to be silent, while the servants laughed and said: "Tattercoats is happy in her rags, playing with the gooseherd, let her be--it is all she is fit for." **Who acts:** king, servants, Tattercoats, horse, nurse · **What happens:** frown, tell, be, laugh, say, play · **To what, where:** horse, rags · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (king, servants, Tattercoats, horse), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:20:98 # text = But he only frowned and told her to be silent, while the servants laughed and said: "Tattercoats is happy in her rags, playing with the gooseherd, let her be--it is all she is fit for." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 only only ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 frowned frown VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 9 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 while while SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Tattercoats tattercoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nsubj _ _ 21 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 ccomp _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 playing play VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 ccomp _ _ 28 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 gooseherd gooseherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 be be VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 37 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 38 all all ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 fit fit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 42 for for ADP IN _ 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **frown** | past | king | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | king *not said here* | | horse | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 3 | **is** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | | | | | | silent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **laugh** | past | the servants | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the servants *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Tattercoats | | | horse's rags | | happy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **play** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | with the gooseherd | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gooseherd=Theme | | 8 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | horse | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | horse *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **is** *in a quote* | present | nurse | | | | | all, fit *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/99/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/)