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title: Then he said, "There must be some one that the slipper has not been… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then he said, "There must be some one that the slipper has not been tried on." Who acts: prince. 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 5

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Then he said, "There must be some one that the slipper has not been tried on."

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**Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** say, be, not try on · **To what, where:** one, slipper · **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 (prince), 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:pg14241:29:5
# text = Then he said, "There must be some one that the slipper has not been tried on."
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
7	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	ccomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | some one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **try on** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the slipper |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme that=Attribute |

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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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