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title: So that the pretty speech they had Made Murder's heart relent; And t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So that the pretty speech they had Made Murder's heart relent; And they that undertook the deed Full sore now did repent. Who acts: Children. 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 52

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So that the pretty speech they had Made Murder's heart relent; And they that undertook the deed Full sore now did repent.

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**Who acts:** Children · **What happens:** make, undertake, repent · **To what, where:** heart relent, deed

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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 (Children), 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:pg14241:25:52
# text = So that the pretty speech they had Made Murder's heart relent; And they that undertook the deed Full sore now did repent.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Murder	Murder	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	relent	relent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	undertook	undertake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
21	sore	sore	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect | Children *= child* | Murder's heart relent |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset relent=Product |
| 2 | **undertake** | past | Children *= child* | the deed |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
| 3 | **repent** | past · do-support | Children *= child* *not said here* |  |  |  | now | sore *property* | tree rules |

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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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