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title: "Gode'en, missis," says he, "I reckon I've fetched thee the right th… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Gode'en, missis," says he, "I reckon I've fetched thee the right thing this time, surely," and he plumped the sack down kerflap! in the doorsill. Who acts: Gode'en, yi. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 48

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"Gode'en, missis," says he, "I reckon I've fetched thee the right thing this time, surely," and he plumped the sack down kerflap! in the doorsill.

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**Who acts:** Gode'en, yi · **What happens:** say, reckon, fetch, plump down · **To what, where:** yi, thee, sack, doorsill · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gode'en, yi), 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:pg14241:26:48
# text = "Gode'en, missis," says he, "I reckon I've fetched thee the right thing this time, surely," and he plumped the sack down kerflap! in the doorsill.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Gode'en	Gode'en	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	missis	missis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
16	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	obj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	plumped	plump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	down	down	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
32	kerflap	kerflap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	doorsill	doorsill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Gode'en and missis | yi |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reckon** *in a quote* | present | Gode'en and missis *= gode'en* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **fetch** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Gode'en and missis *= gode'en* | thee |  |  | time | surely *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent thou=Beneficiary thing=Theme |
| 4 | **plump down** | past | yi | the sack |  | the doorsill |  | kerflap *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sack=Patient |

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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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