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title: "And us thou sent'st to brood in the corners!" howled the Bogles. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "And us thou sent'st to brood in the corners!" howled the Bogles. Who acts: us, sent'st. 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 83

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"And us thou sent'st to brood in the corners!" howled the Bogles.

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**Who acts:** us, sent'st · **What happens:** sent'st, brood, howl · **To what, where:** corners, Bogles

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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 (us, sent'st), 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:pg14241:24:83
# text = "And us thou sent'st to brood in the corners!" howled the Bogles.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
3	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sent'st	sent'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	brood	brood	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
13	howled	howl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Bogles	Bogle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sent'st** *in a quote* |  | us |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brood** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | sent'st *not said here* |  |  | the corners |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **howl** | past | sent'st | the Bogles |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent bogle=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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