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title: So she set one of her ugly daughters on the watch at meal times to f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she set one of her ugly daughters on the watch at meal times to find out how Rushen Coatie got enough to live on. Who acts: wife, Rushen. 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 clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 85

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So she set one of her ugly daughters on the watch at meal times to find out how Rushen Coatie got enough to live on.

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**Who acts:** wife, Rushen · **What happens:** set, find out, get, live on · **To what, where:** one

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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, Rushen), 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:pg14241:28:85
# text = So she set one of her ugly daughters on the watch at meal times to find out how Rushen Coatie got enough to live on.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	_
21	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | wife | one of wife's ugly daughters on the watch |  |  | time |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient one=Result |
| 2 | **find out** | to-infinitive | wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | past | Rushen |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **live on** | to-infinitive | Rushen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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