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title: But he only just tasted the milk in the big saucer, which was so sou… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he only just tasted the milk in the big saucer, which was so sour and so nasty that he would not taste another drop of it. Who acts: Scrapefoot, big saucer. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 30

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But he only just tasted the milk in the big saucer, which was so sour and so nasty that he would not taste another drop of it.

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**Who acts:** Scrapefoot, big saucer · **What happens:** taste, be, not taste · **To what, where:** milk, big saucer, drop

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot, big saucer), 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:pg14241:23:30
# text = But he only just tasted the milk in the big saucer, which was so sour and so nasty that he would not taste another drop of it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	tasted	taste	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sour	sour	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	nasty	nasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	taste	taste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
25	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
26	drop	drop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **taste** | past | Scrapefoot | the milk |  | the big saucer |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent milk=Theme in saucer=Location |
| 2 | **is** | past | the big saucer |  |  |  |  | sour *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **taste** | would | Scrapefoot | another drop of drop |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme drop=Attribute |

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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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