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title: But the prince was determined to try it on Rushen Coatie, but she ra… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the prince was determined to try it on Rushen Coatie, but she ran away to the grey stone, where the red calf dressed her in her bravest dress, and she went to the prince and the slipper jumped out of his pocket on to her foot, fitting her without any chipping or paring. Who acts: prince, Rushen,
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 7

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But the prince was determined to try it on Rushen Coatie, but she ran away to the grey stone, where the red calf dressed her in her bravest dress, and she went to the prince and the slipper jumped out of his pocket on to her foot, fitting her without any chipping or paring.

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**Who acts:** prince, Rushen, red calf, calf, slipper · **What happens:** be, try, run away, dress, go, jump out · **To what, where:** coatie, Rushen, bravest dress, pocket, foot

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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, Rushen, red calf, calf), 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:pg14241:29:7
# text = But the prince was determined to try it on Rushen Coatie, but she ran away to the grey stone, where the red calf dressed her in her bravest dress, and she went to the prince and the slipper jumped out of his pocket on to her foot, fitting her without any chipping or paring.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Rushen	Rushen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Coatie	Coatie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	26	advmod	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	dressed	dress	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	dress	dress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	slipper	slipper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	pocket	pocket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	advcl	_	_
53	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obj	_	_
54	without	without	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	56	det	_	_
56	chipping	chipping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
57	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	paring	paring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the prince |  |  |  |  | determined *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | to-infinitive | the prince *not said here* | coatie |  | Rushen |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
| 3 | **run away** | past | Rushen |  |  |  |  | to the grey stone *result*; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stone=Result |
| 4 | **dress** | past | the red calf | Rushen |  | Rushen's bravest dress |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 5 | **go** | past | calf |  |  |  |  | to the prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to prince=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **jump out** | past | the slipper | prince's pocket |  | Rushen's foot |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pocket=Trajectory |
| 7 | **fit** | gerund | the slipper *not said here* | Rushen |  |  |  | without any chipping or paring | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |

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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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