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title: But she came away before service was over, and was home before the r… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she came away before service was over, and was home before the rest, and had off her fine clothes and on with her rushen coatie, and she found the calf had covered the table, and the dinner was ready, and everything was in good order when the rest came home. Who acts: Rushen, service, fine cloth
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 105

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But she came away before service was over, and was home before the rest, and had off her fine clothes and on with her rushen coatie, and she found the calf had covered the table, and the dinner was ready, and everything was in good order when the rest came home.

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**Who acts:** Rushen, service, fine clothes, dinner, everything, rest · **What happens:** come away, be, have off, rushen, find, cover · **To what, where:** fine clothes, coatie, calf, good order · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rushen, service, fine clothes, dinner), 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:pg14241:28:105
# text = But she came away before service was over, and was home before the rest, and had off her fine clothes and on with her rushen coatie, and she found the calf had covered the table, and the dinner was ready, and everything was in good order when the rest came home.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	home	home	ADV	RB	_	3	conj	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADV	RB	_	22	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	rushen	rushen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
28	coatie	coatie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	ccomp	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
44	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
47	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
48	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
52	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	55	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	nsubj	_	_
55	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
56	home	home	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come away** | past | Rushen |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | service |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | Rushen *not said here* |  |  |  | before the rest | home *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **have off** | past | Rushen *not said here* | Rushen's fine clothes |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **rushen** | infinitive | Rushen's fine clothes *not said here* | coatie |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | past | Rushen |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 7 | **cover** | past · perfect · passive |  | the calf |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is** | past | the dinner |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | everything |  |  | good order |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **come** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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