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title: When they all went to church, Rushen Coatie sat down and wept, but l… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they all went to church, Rushen Coatie sat down and wept, but looking up, who should she see coming in limping, lamping, with a shank wanting, but the dear red calf? Who acts: thimbleful, Rushen, shank. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 14
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 14, sentence 96

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When they all went to church, Rushen Coatie sat down and wept, but looking up, who should she see coming in limping, lamping, with a shank wanting, but the dear red calf?

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**Who acts:** thimbleful, Rushen, shank · **What happens:** go, sit down, weep, look up, see, come · **To what, where:** church, dear red calf, limping

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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 (thimbleful, Rushen, shank), 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:pg14241:28:96
# text = When they all went to church, Rushen Coatie sat down and wept, but looking up, who should she see coming in limping, lamping, with a shank wanting, but the dear red calf?
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
16	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	csubj	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	limping	limping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	lamping	lamp	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	shank	shank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | thimbleful |  |  | church |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to church=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sit down** | past | Rushen | the dear red calf |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **weep** | past | Rushen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **look up** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **see** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  | limping |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limping=Location |
| 7 | **lamp** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **want** | gerund | a shank |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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