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title: And there lay the poor Moon, dead and buried in the bog, till some o… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And there lay the poor Moon, dead and buried in the bog, till some one would set her loose; and who'd know where to look for her. Who acts: one. 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 96

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And there lay the poor Moon, dead and buried in the bog, till some one would set her loose; and who'd know where to look for her.

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**Who acts:** one · **What happens:** lie, bury, set, know, look · **To what, where:** poor Moon, bog, loose · **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 (one), 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:pg14241:24:96
# text = And there lay the poor Moon, dead and buried in the bog, till some one would set her loose; and who'd know where to look for her.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Moon	Moon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bog	bog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | the poor Moon |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location moon=Theme |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  | the bog |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in bog=Destination |
| 3 | **set** | would | some one | Ho's loose |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient loose=Result |
| 4 | **know** | would |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for Ho | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for she=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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