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title: "Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes Behind the young prince rides, But Pr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes Behind the young prince rides, But Pretty Feet and Little Feet Behind the cauldron bides." Who acts: Hackèd Heels, cauldron. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 1

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"Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes Behind the young prince rides, But Pretty Feet and Little Feet Behind the cauldron bides."

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**Who acts:** Hackèd Heels, cauldron · **What happens:** ride, bide · **To what, where:** Pretty Feet

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hackèd Heels, cauldron), 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:pg14241:29:1
# text = "Hackèd Heels and Pinchèd Toes Behind the young prince rides, But Pretty Feet and Little Feet Behind the cauldron bides."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hackèd	Hackèd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Heels	heel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Pinchèd	Pinchèd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
11	rides	ride	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Pretty	Pretty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Feet	Feet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	Little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Feet	Feet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cauldron	cauldron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	bides	bide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** *in a quote* | present | Hackèd Heels behind the young prince and Pinchèd Toes | Pretty Feet and Little Feet |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bide** *in a quote* | present | the cauldron |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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