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title: And the Bogles fetched a strange big stone and rolled it on top of h… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Bogles fetched a strange big stone and rolled it on top of her, to keep her from rising. Who acts: Bogles. 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 94

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And the Bogles fetched a strange big stone and rolled it on top of her, to keep her from rising.

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**Who acts:** Bogles · **What happens:** fetch, roll, keep, rise · **To what, where:** strange big stone, hold, top, Ho

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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 (Bogles), 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:pg14241:24:94
# text = And the Bogles fetched a strange big stone and rolled it on top of her, to keep her from rising.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Bogles	Bogle	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fetch** | past | the Bogles | a strange big stone |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 2 | **roll** | past | the Bogles *not said here* | hold |  | top of Ho |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on top=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | to-infinitive | the Bogles *not said here* | Ho |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 4 | **rise** | gerund | the Bogles *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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