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title: "When thou 'rt done with this world, and thy folk put thee in the gr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "When thou 'rt done with this world, and thy folk put thee in the ground," said the wise woman. " Who acts: thou, folk, wise woman. 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 106

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"When thou 'rt done with this world, and thy folk put thee in the ground," said the wise woman. "

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**Who acts:** thou, folk, wise woman · **What happens:** do, put, say · **To what, where:** thee, ground · **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 (thou, folk, wise woman), 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:pg14241:22:106
# text = "When thou 'rt done with this world, and thy folk put thee in the ground," said the wise woman. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nsubj	_	_
4	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	rt	Rt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:outer	_	_
14	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
15	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	obj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
21	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | thou |  |  |  |  | with this world | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** *in a quote* | participle | thy folk | thee |  | the ground |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme in ground=Destination |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wise woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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