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title: But when she had eaten all this, she was just as hungry as before, s… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when she had eaten all this, she was just as hungry as before, so she said to herself: "Oh! how I wish I had something to eat." Who acts: wife. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 79

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But when she had eaten all this, she was just as hungry as before, so she said to herself: "Oh! how I wish I had something to eat."

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**Who acts:** wife · **What happens:** eat, be, say, wish, have · **To what, where:** this, wife, something · **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 (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:pg14241:28:79
# text = But when she had eaten all this, she was just as hungry as before, so she said to herself: "Oh! how I wish I had something to eat."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
7	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	before	before	ADV	RB	_	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
23	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
27	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
31	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	30	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | wife | this |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past | wife |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | wife |  | wife |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | past | wife | something |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* | something *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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