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description: He tried two or three mouthfuls, but it was not nice, and then he left it and went to the little saucer, and the milk in the little saucer was so sweet and so nice that he went on drinking it till it was all gone. Who acts: Scrapefoot, little, milk. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 32

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He tried two or three mouthfuls, but it was not nice, and then he left it and went to the little saucer, and the milk in the little saucer was so sweet and so nice that he went on drinking it till it was all gone.

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**Who acts:** Scrapefoot, little, milk · **What happens:** try, not be, leave, go, be, drink · **To what, where:** two mouthfuls, little, little saucer

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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, little, milk), 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:pg14241:23:32
# text = He tried two or three mouthfuls, but it was not nice, and then he left it and went to the little saucer, and the milk in the little saucer was so sweet and so nice that he went on drinking it till it was all gone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
6	mouthfuls	mouthful	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
12	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	saucer	saucer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	_
39	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	ccomp	_	_
42	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
43	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	41	advcl	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	all	all	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past | Scrapefoot | two mouthfuls |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | little |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | past | Scrapefoot | little |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **go** | past | Scrapefoot *not said here* |  |  | the little saucer |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to saucer=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **is** | past | the milk in the little saucer |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **be** |  | the milk in the little saucer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **go** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **drink** | gerund | Scrapefoot *not said here* | little |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 9 | **is** | past | little |  |  |  |  | all, gone *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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