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title: So they went home together, and he never wanted to buy a pottle o' b… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So they went home together, and he never wanted to buy a pottle o' brains again, for his wife had enough for both. Who acts: brains, M'appen, wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 107

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So they went home together, and he never wanted to buy a pottle o' brains again, for his wife had enough for both.

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**Who acts:** brains, M'appen, wife · **What happens:** go, not want, buy, have · **To what, where:** o brains

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brains, M'appen, wife), 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:pg14241:26:107
# text = So they went home together, and he never wanted to buy a pottle o' brains again, for his wife had enough for both.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	buy	buy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	pottle	pottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
18	again	again	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | brains *= brain* |  |  |  |  | home, together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **want** | past | M'appen |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **buy** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | M'appen *not said here* | o brains |  |  | again |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brain=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | M'appen's wife |  |  |  |  | for both; enough *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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