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title: Long ago, in my grandmother's time, the Carland was all in bogs, gre… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Long ago, in my grandmother's time, the Carland was all in bogs, great pools of black water, and creeping trickles of green water, and squishy mools which squirted when you stepped on them. Who acts: Carland, squishy mools, you, green water. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs,
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 51

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Long ago, in my grandmother's time, the Carland was all in bogs, great pools of black water, and creeping trickles of green water, and squishy mools which squirted when you stepped on them.

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**Who acts:** Carland, squishy mools, you, green water · **What happens:** be, creep, squirt, step, trickle · **To what, where:** bogs

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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 (Carland, squishy mools, you, green water), 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:pg14241:24:51
# text = Long ago, in my grandmother's time, the Carland was all in bogs, great pools of black water, and creeping trickles of green water, and squishy mools which squirted when you stepped on them.
1	Long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	ago	ago	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Carland	Carland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	bogs	bog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	trickles	trickle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	squishy	squishy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	mools	mool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	squirted	squirt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	stepped	step	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Carland |  |  | bogs and great pools of black water and creeping trickles of green water and squishy mools |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **creep** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **squirt** | past | squishy mools |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 4 | **step** | past | you |  |  |  |  | on mools *= mool* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Trajectory |
| 5 | **trickle** |  | green water |  |  |  |  |  | nom trickle «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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