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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 99

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A second, and then a third time, the old nurse begged him to let the girl go with him, but she was answered only by black looks and fierce words, till she was driven from the room by the jeering servants, with blows and mocking words.

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**Who acts:** second, girl, black looks, jeering servants · **What happens:** beg, let, go, answer, drive, mock · **To what, where:** king, girl, horse, room, words

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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 (second, girl, black looks, jeering servants), 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:pg14241:20:99
# text = A second, and then a third time, the old nurse begged him to let the girl go with him, but she was answered only by black looks and fierce words, till she was driven from the room by the jeering servants, with blows and mocking words.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	second	second	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
5	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	answered	answer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
27	only	only	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	looks	look	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	parataxis	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	by	by	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	jeering	jeering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	conj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	conj	_	_
51	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | a second |  | king |  | then |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | a second *not said here* | the girl |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with king | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past · passive | black looks and fierce words | horse |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent subject=Eventuality |
| 5 | **drive** | past · passive | the jeering servants and blows | horse |  | the room |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from room=Trajectory |
| 6 | **mock** | gerund | the jeering servants and blows *not said here* | words |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme |

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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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