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title: Burd Janet said; "and why have you been away so long?" — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Burd Janet said; "and why have you been away so long?" Who acts: Burd, you. 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 50

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Burd Janet said; "and why have you been away so long?"

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**Who acts:** Burd, you · **What happens:** say, have, be · **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 (Burd, you), 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:pg14241:29:50
# text = Burd Janet said; "and why have you been away so long?"
1	Burd	Burd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Janet	Janet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
10	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	cop	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Burd |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | 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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