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title: Up she gets with the tow-cards and the tailor with the goose, and th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Up she gets with the tow-cards and the tailor with the goose, and the two 'prentices, the one with the big shears, and the other with the lawbrod; but it dodged them, and ran round about the fire; and one of the 'prentices, thinking to snap it with the shears, fell into the ashes. Who acts: wife, tw
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 39

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Up she gets with the tow-cards and the tailor with the goose, and the two 'prentices, the one with the big shears, and the other with the lawbrod; but it dodged them, and ran round about the fire; and one of the 'prentices, thinking to snap it with the shears, fell into the ashes.

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**Who acts:** wife, two prentices, Bannock · **What happens:** get, one, dodge, run, think, snap · **To what, where:** prentices, Bannock, ashes

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, two prentices, Bannock), 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:pg14241:21:39
# text = Up she gets with the tow-cards and the tailor with the goose, and the two 'prentices, the one with the big shears, and the other with the lawbrod; but it dodged them, and ran round about the fire; and one of the 'prentices, thinking to snap it with the shears, fell into the ashes.
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gets	get	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	tow	tow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	cards	card	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
19	'	'	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	prentices	prentice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	shears	shear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	lawbrod	lawbrod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	38	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	dodged	dodge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
43	round	round	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	about	about	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	parataxis	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	prentices	prentice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
55	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
56	to	to	PART	TO	_	57	mark	_	_
57	snap	snap	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	obj	_	_
59	with	with	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	shears	shear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
64	into	into	ADP	IN	_	66	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	66	det	_	_
66	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present | wife |  |  |  |  | with the tow cards and the tailor with the goose | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **one** |  | the two prentices |  |  |  |  | with the big shears | tree rules |
| 3 | **dodge** | past | Bannock | prentices *= prentice* |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location |
| 4 | **run** | past | Bannock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the fire; round *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about fire=Trajectory |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **snap** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | Bannock |  |  |  | with the shears | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with shear=Instrument |
| 7 | **fall** | past | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  | into the ashes *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ash=Result |

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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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