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title: "Drat thee!" yelled the witch-bodies, "thou 'st spoiled our spells t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Drat thee!" yelled the witch-bodies, "thou 'st spoiled our spells this year agone!" Who acts: witch bodies, thou, our. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 82

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"Drat thee!" yelled the witch-bodies, "thou 'st spoiled our spells this year agone!"

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**Who acts:** witch bodies, thou, our · **What happens:** yell, spoil, spell · **To what, where:** thee, spells · **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 (witch bodies, thou, our), 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:pg14241:24:82
# text = "Drat thee!" yelled the witch-bodies, "thou 'st spoiled our spells this year agone!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Drat	drat	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	reparandum	_	_
3	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	yelled	yell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	st	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	spoiled	spoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	agone	agone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **yell** *speech: express* | past | the witch bodies | thee |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spoil** *in a quote* | past | thou | our spells |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spell** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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