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title: "Goode'en to ye, Brooklet, Brooklet," says she; "I'm seeking the sta… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Goode'en to ye, Brooklet, Brooklet," says she; "I'm seeking the stars in the sky to play with. Who acts: brooklet. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 101

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"Goode'en to ye, Brooklet, Brooklet," says she; "I'm seeking the stars in the sky to play with.

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**Who acts:** brooklet · **What happens:** say, seek, play · **To what, where:** stars, sky · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brooklet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:1368`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:29:101
# text = "Goode'en to ye, Brooklet, Brooklet," says she; "I'm seeking the stars in the sky to play with.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Goode'en	goode'en	INTJ	UH	_	11	ccomp	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Person=2|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Brooklet	Brooklet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Brooklet	Brooklet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | brooklet |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **seek** *in a quote* | present · progressive | brooklet | the stars |  | the sky |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent star=Theme in sky=Location |
| 3 | **play** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | brooklet *not said here* | the stars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7-1 «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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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