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title: And when Rushen Coatie heard of it, she sate down and wept by its si… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when Rushen Coatie heard of it, she sate down and wept by its side, but the dead calf said: Who acts: Rushen, dead calf. 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 89

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And when Rushen Coatie heard of it, she sate down and wept by its side, but the dead calf said:

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**Who acts:** Rushen, dead calf · **What happens:** hear, sate down, weep, say · **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, dead calf), 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:pg14241:28:89
# text = And when Rushen Coatie heard of it, she sate down and wept by its side, but the dead calf said:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sate	sate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wept	weep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Rushen |  |  |  |  | of butcher | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of it=Stimulus |
| 2 | **sate down** | infinitive | Rushen |  |  |  |  |  | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument |
| 3 | **weep** | participle | Rushen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by butcher's side | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the dead calf |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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