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title: "Well," said she, after looking in the brewpot, and in the mirror, a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Well," said she, after looking in the brewpot, and in the mirror, and in the Book, "it be main queer, but I can't rightly tell ye what's happened to her. Who acts: lot, Moon. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependency tree and t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 101

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"Well," said she, after looking in the brewpot, and in the mirror, and in the Book, "it be main queer, but I can't rightly tell ye what's happened to her.

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**Who acts:** lot, Moon · **What happens:** say, look, be, not tell, happen · **To what, where:** main queer, ye, lot · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, Moon), 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:pg14241:24:101
# text = "Well," said she, after looking in the brewpot, and in the mirror, and in the Book, "it be main queer, but I can't rightly tell ye what's happened to her.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	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=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	brewpot	brewpot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Book	Book	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	queer	queer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	rightly	rightly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
36	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	iobj	_	_
37	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	39	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	ccomp	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | lot |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | lot *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the mirror; in the Book; in the brewpot | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in brewpot=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | Moon | main queer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | can | lot |  | ye |  |  | rightly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent ye=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **happen** *in a quote* | present · passive |  |  | lot |  |  |  | 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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