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title: The three sisters said to Rushen Coatie: "Eh, lassie, if you had see… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The three sisters said to Rushen Coatie: "Eh, lassie, if you had seen the bonny fine lady in church to-day, that the young prince fell in love with!" Who acts: three sisters, Rushen Coatie, young prince. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, wi
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 106

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The three sisters said to Rushen Coatie: "Eh, lassie, if you had seen the bonny fine lady in church to-day, that the young prince fell in love with!"

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**Who acts:** three sisters, Rushen Coatie, young prince · **What happens:** say, see, fall · **To what, where:** Eh, Rushen Coatie, bonny fine lady, church, love · **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 (three sisters, Rushen Coatie, young prince), 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:pg14241:28:106
# text = The three sisters said to Rushen Coatie: "Eh, lassie, if you had seen the bonny fine lady in church to-day, that the young prince fell in love with!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lassie	lassie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
20	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | the three sisters | Eh | Rushen Coatie |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to coatie=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **see** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past · perfect | Rushen Coatie *= coatie* | the bonny fine lady |  | church | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lady=Stimulus |
| 3 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | the young prince |  |  | love |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |

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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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