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title: "Ay," said the fool, "I be dirty outside an' dusty in, but it's not… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ay," said the fool, "I be dirty outside an' dusty in, but it's not the right thing yet." Who acts: fool, sun. 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 74

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"Ay," said the fool, "I be dirty outside an' dusty in, but it's not the right thing yet."

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**Who acts:** fool, sun · **What happens:** say, be, not be · **To what, where:** right thing · **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 (fool, sun), 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:pg14241:22:74
# text = "Ay," said the fool, "I be dirty outside an' dusty in, but it's not the right thing yet."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ay	ay	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	ccomp	_	_
13	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dusty	dusty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the fool |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive | the fool *= fool* |  |  |  |  | dirty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | present | sun | the right thing |  |  | yet |  | 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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