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title: He saw them throw her down, fall on her, and kill her; then with the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw them throw her down, fall on her, and kill her; then with their knives they ripped her open, and flayed her as clean as a whistle. Who acts: farmer, cows. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 126

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He saw them throw her down, fall on her, and kill her; then with their knives they ripped her open, and flayed her as clean as a whistle.

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**Who acts:** farmer, cows · **What happens:** see, throw down, fall, kill, rip, flay · **To what, where:** cows, Mother

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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 (farmer, cows), 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:pg14241:22:126
# text = He saw them throw her down, fall on her, and kill her; then with their knives they ripped her open, and flayed her as clean as a whistle.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	knives	knife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	ripped	rip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	flayed	flay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	as	as	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	whistle	whistle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | farmer | cows *= cow* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw down** | infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | on Mother | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location |
| 4 | **kill** | infinitive | cows *= cow* *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 5 | **rip** | past | cows *= cow* |  |  |  | then | with cows's knives; open *property* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with knife=Instrument |
| 6 | **flay** | past | farmer *not said here* | Mother |  |  |  | clean *property* | 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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