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title: Well! there it lay in a dish on the table, and if the goodman and go… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well! there it lay in a dish on the table, and if the goodman and goodwife didn't ride in a golden coach, or dress in silk and satin, why, they had at least as fine a black pudding for their supper as the heart of man could desire. Who acts: pudding, goodman, coach, man. A sentence of «More English 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 49

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Well! there it lay in a dish on the table, and if the goodman and goodwife didn't ride in a golden coach, or dress in silk and satin, why, they had at least as fine a black pudding for their supper as the heart of man could desire.

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**Who acts:** pudding, goodman, coach, man · **What happens:** lie, not ride, have, desire · **To what, where:** dish, golden coach, least, heart

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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 (pudding, goodman, coach, man), 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:pg14241:24:49
# text = Well! there it lay in a dish on the table, and if the goodman and goodwife didn't ride in a golden coach, or dress in silk and satin, why, they had at least as fine a black pudding for their supper as the heart of man could desire.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	goodman	goodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	goodwife	goodwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	satin	satin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
38	at	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	37	obl	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	_
48	as	as	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
51	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nsubj	_	_
53	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
54	desire	desire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | pudding |  |  | a dish; there |  | on the table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in dish=Location |
| 2 | **not** **ride** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | the goodman and goodwife |  |  | a golden coach or dress in silk and satin |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** | past | coach |  |  | least |  | as a fine black pudding for coach's supper; as the heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **desire** | could | man | the heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot heart=Theme |

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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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