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title: But the wee bannock dodged round about the churn, and the wife after… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the wee bannock dodged round about the churn, and the wife after it, and in the hurry she had near-hand overturned the churn. Who acts: wife, wee bannock. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 53

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But the wee bannock dodged round about the churn, and the wife after it, and in the hurry she had near-hand overturned the churn.

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**Who acts:** wife, wee bannock · **What happens:** dodge, have, overturn · **To what, where:** wee bannock, hurry, hand, churn

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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, wee 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:pg14241:21:53
# text = But the wee bannock dodged round about the churn, and the wife after it, and in the hurry she had near-hand overturned the churn.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bannock	bannock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
5	dodged	dodge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	round	round	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	overturned	overturn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	churn	churn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dodge** | participle |  | the wee bannock and the wife after churn *not said here* |  |  |  | about the churn; round *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | wife | the hurry *not said here* |  | hand |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hurry=Patient |
| 3 | **overturn** | past | the wee bannock and the wife after churn | the churn |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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