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title: "So they all say," sighed the fool; "but where can I get the right s… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "So they all say," sighed the fool; "but where can I get the right sort of coat o' clay, then, missis?" Who acts: fools. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 105

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"So they all say," sighed the fool; "but where can I get the right sort of coat o' clay, then, missis?"

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**Who acts:** fools · **What happens:** say, sigh, get, sort · **To what, where:** fool, right sort, coat · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fools), 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:pg14241:22:105
# text = "So they all say," sighed the fool; "but where can I get the right sort of coat o' clay, then, missis?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	_
8	sighed	sigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	25	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	_
25	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	missis	missis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* *in a quote* | present | fools *= fool* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **sigh** | past |  | the fool |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fool=Topic |
| 3 | **get** *in a quote* | can | fools *= fool* | the right sort of coat of clay |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sort** *in a quote* |  |  | coat |  |  |  |  | nom sort «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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