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title: But soon came Duckie and with her Sir Drake; Duckie takes Puddock an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But soon came Duckie and with her Sir Drake; Duckie takes Puddock and makes him squeak. Who acts: Duckie, Puddock. 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 71

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But soon came Duckie and with her Sir Drake; Duckie takes Puddock and makes him squeak.

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**Who acts:** Duckie, Puddock · **What happens:** come, take, make, squeak · **To what, where:** Duckie, Puddock

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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 (Duckie, Puddock), 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:pg14241:30:71
# text = But soon came Duckie and with her Sir Drake; Duckie takes Puddock and makes him squeak.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Duckie	Duckie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	Drake	Drake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Duckie	Duckie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	Puddock	Puddock	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	squeak	squeak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **come** | past |  | Duckie and bride's Sir |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location duckie=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | present | Duckie |  | Puddock |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument puddock=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | present | Duckie *not said here* | Puddock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **squeak** | infinitive | Puddock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «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:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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