--- title: While the girl was still watching, she heard Habetrot address this d… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: While the girl was still watching, she heard Habetrot address this dame by the name of Scantlie Mab, and say, "Bundle up the yarn, it is time the young lassie should give it to her mother." Who acts: girl, Habetrot, yarn, young lassie. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, Habetrot, yarn, young lassie), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:31:20 # text = While the girl was still watching, she heard Habetrot address this dame by the name of Scantlie Mab, and say, "Bundle up the yarn, it is time the young lassie should give it to her mother." 1 While while SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 5 still still ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 watching watch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Habetrot Habetrot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 address address VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 12 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 dame dame NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 by by ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 Scantlie Scantlie PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 19 Mab Mab PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Bundle bundle VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 yarn yarn NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 lassie lassie NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl:relcl _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 " " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **watch** | past · progressive | the girl | | | | still | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** | past | girl | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **address** | infinitive | Habetrot | this dame | | | | by the name of Scantlie | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dame=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bundle up** *in a quote* | infinitive | girl *not said here* | the yarn | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yarn=Patient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | yarn | time | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | should | the young lassie | yarn | Habetrot's mother | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Recipient | | 8 | **name** | | | Scantlie | | | | | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/21/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)