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description: But the more she refused him the sweeter the pipe played, and the deeper the young man fell in love; till at last he begged her, as a proof of his sincerity, to come that night at twelve to the King's ball, just as she was, with the herdboy and his geese, and in her torn petticoat and bare feet, and
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 4

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But the more she refused him the sweeter the pipe played, and the deeper the young man fell in love; till at last he begged her, as a proof of his sincerity, to come that night at twelve to the King's ball, just as she was, with the herdboy and his geese, and in her torn petticoat and bare feet, and he would dance with her before the King and the lords and ladies, and present her to them all, as his dear and honoured bride.

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**Who acts:** wife, pipe, deeper, man · **What happens:** refuse, play, fall, beg, come, be · **To what, where:** King, love, wife, twelve, ladies, sincerity

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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, pipe, deeper, man), 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:pg14241:21:4
# text = But the more she refused him the sweeter the pipe played, and the deeper the young man fell in love; till at last he begged her, as a proof of his sincerity, to come that night at twelve to the King's ball, just as she was, with the herdboy and his geese, and in her torn petticoat and bare feet, and he would dance with her before the King and the lords and ladies, and present her to them all, as his dear and honoured bride.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	refused	refuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sweeter	sweet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	xcomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	played	play	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	deeper	deep	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	19	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
19	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	begged	beg	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sincerity	sincerity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
39	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	det	_	_
40	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl:unmarked	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	obl	_	_
43	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	's	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
49	just	just	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
50	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	56	mark	_	_
51	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	herdboy	herdboy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	parataxis	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
58	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	59	nmod:poss	_	_
59	geese	goose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
63	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	65	nmod:poss	_	_
64	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	65	amod	_	_
65	petticoat	petticoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	_
66	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	68	cc	_	_
67	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	65	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	73	punct	_	_
70	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	73	cc	_	_
71	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	nsubj	_	_
72	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	73	aux	_	_
73	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
74	with	with	ADP	IN	_	75	case	_	_
75	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	73	obl	_	_
76	before	before	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
77	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	78	det	_	_
78	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	73	obl	_	_
79	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	81	cc	_	_
80	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	81	det	_	_
81	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	78	conj	_	_
82	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	83	cc	_	_
83	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	81	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
84	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	86	punct	_	_
85	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	86	cc	_	_
86	present	present	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	73	parataxis	_	_
87	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	86	obj	_	_
88	to	to	ADP	IN	_	89	case	_	_
89	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	86	obl	_	_
90	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	89	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
91	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	97	punct	_	_
92	as	as	ADP	IN	_	97	case	_	_
93	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	97	nmod:poss	_	_
94	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	97	amod	_	_
95	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	96	cc	_	_
96	honoured	honoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	94	conj	_	_
97	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	86	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
98	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **refuse** | past | wife | King |  |  |  | sweet *property* | vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **play** | past | the pipe |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | past | the deeper |  |  | love |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | man |  | wife |  | till last |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  | twelve to the King's ball | night |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at twelve=Location |
| 6 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | with the herdboy and King's geese and wife's torn petticoat and bare feet | tree rules |
| 7 | **tear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **dance** | would | man |  |  |  | before the King and the lords and ladies | with wife | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before king=Location |
| 9 | **present** | infinitive |  | wife | ladies *= lady* |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to they=Recipient |
| 10 | **proof** |  |  | King's sincerity |  |  |  |  | nom proof «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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