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title: Well, one day, as she sat at her door paring potatoes, over the stil… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, one day, as she sat at her door paring potatoes, over the stile and up the path came a tall lad with a long nose and goggle eyes and his hands in his pockets. Who acts: woman, stile. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependenc
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 7

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Well, one day, as she sat at her door paring potatoes, over the stile and up the path came a tall lad with a long nose and goggle eyes and his hands in his pockets.

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**Who acts:** woman, stile · **What happens:** sit, pare, come · **To what, where:** door, potatoes, pockets

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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 (woman, stile), 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:pg14241:22:7
# text = Well, one day, as she sat at her door paring potatoes, over the stile and up the path came a tall lad with a long nose and goggle eyes and his hands in his pockets.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	paring	pare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
13	potatoes	potato	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stile	stile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
22	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	goggle	goggle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | woman |  |  | woman's door | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
| 2 | **pare** | gerund | woman *not said here* | potatoes |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent potato=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | the stile and the path |  |  | lad's pockets |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pocket=Location |

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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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