--- title: And she kept his house so clean and neat, and cooked his dinner so f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And she kept his house so clean and neat, and cooked his dinner so fine, that one night he says to her: "Lass, I'm thinking I like thee best of everything after all." Who acts: st, long'st. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (st, long'st), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:26:74 # text = And she kept his house so clean and neat, and cooked his dinner so fine, that one night he says to her: "Lass, I'm thinking I like thee best of everything after all." 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 so so ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 neat neat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 cooked cook VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 20 det _ _ 19 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 Lass lass NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 'm be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 acl:relcl _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 ccomp _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 35 nsubj _ _ 35 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 35 obl _ _ 38 after after ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | st | long'st's house | | | | clean *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 2 | **cook** | past | st *not said here* | long'st's dinner | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | long'st *= long'* | | st | | night | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · progressive | long'st *= long'* | Lass *not said here* | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lass=Attribute clause=Theme | | 5 | **like** *in a quote* | present | long'st *= long'* | best | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot good=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/75/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/26/)