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title: And bang she came on to the hard boards, and found herself sitting,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And bang she came on to the hard boards, and found herself sitting, weeping and wailing, by the bedside at home all alone. Who acts: you, t. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 5

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And bang she came on to the hard boards, and found herself sitting, weeping and wailing, by the bedside at home all alone.

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**Who acts:** you, t · **What happens:** bang, come on, find, sit, weep, wail · **To what, where:** hard boards, t, bedside

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, t), 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:pg14241:30:5
# text = And bang she came on to the hard boards, and found herself sitting, weeping and wailing, by the bedside at home all alone.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	bang	bang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	on	on	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	boards	board	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wailing	wail	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	bedside	bedside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	all	all	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bang** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come on** | past | t |  |  | the hard boards |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to board=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | t *not said here* | t |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sit** | gerund | t *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **weep** | gerund | t *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wail** | gerund | t *not said here* | the bedside |  |  |  | at home; alone *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent bedside=Theme at home=Stimulus |

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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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