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title: He had not kept these pretty babes A twelvemonth and a day, But, for… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not kept these pretty babes A twelvemonth and a day, But, for their wealth, he did devise To make them both away. Who acts: God. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 47

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He had not kept these pretty babes A twelvemonth and a day, But, for their wealth, he did devise To make them both away.

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**Who acts:** God · **What happens:** not keep, devise, make away · **To what, where:** God, Children

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God), 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:pg14241:25:47
# text = He had not kept these pretty babes A twelvemonth and a day, But, for their wealth, he did devise To make them both away.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	twelvemonth	twelvemonth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
14	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	devise	devise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
23	To	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	appos	_	_
27	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **keep** | past · perfect · passive |  | God |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme babe=Attribute |
| 2 | **devise** | past · do-support | God |  |  |  |  | for Children's wealth | tree rules |
| 3 | **make away** | to-infinitive | God *not said here* | Children *= child* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |

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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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