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title: One morning he went into his cowshed, and there he found Facey so th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One morning he went into his cowshed, and there he found Facey so thin that the wind would have blown her away. Who acts: One. 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 116

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One morning he went into his cowshed, and there he found Facey so thin that the wind would have blown her away.

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**Who acts:** One · **What happens:** go, find, blow away · **To what, where:** cowshed, Facey, wind

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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 (One), 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:pg14241:22:116
# text = One morning he went into his cowshed, and there he found Facey so thin that the wind would have blown her away.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	cowshed	cowshed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	Facey	Facey	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux	_	_
21	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	advcl	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | One |  |  | One's cowshed | morning |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cowshed=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **find** | past | One | Facey |  | there |  | thin *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent facey=Topic |
| 3 | **blow away** | would · perfect · passive |  | the wind |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Product |

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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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