--- title: Scarcely believing her eyes, the girl went home, where she found her… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Scarcely believing her eyes, the girl went home, where she found her mother had been busy making sausters, and hanging them up in the chimney to dry, and then, tired out, had retired to rest. Who acts: girl, mother. 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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, mother), 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:pg14241:31:25 # text = Scarcely believing her eyes, the girl went home, where she found her mother had been busy making sausters, and hanging them up in the chimney to dry, and then, tired out, had retired to rest. 1 Scarcely scarcely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 2 believing believe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ _ 3 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 13 advmod _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 17 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 cop _ _ 18 busy busy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 ccomp _ _ 19 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 advcl _ _ 20 sausters sauster NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 23 hanging hang VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 dry dry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 ccomp _ _ 36 out out ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 retired retire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 conj _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **believe** | gerund | | girl's eyes | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | | 2 | **go** | past | the girl | | | | | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **find** | past | girl | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | past · perfect | girl's mother | | | | | busy *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | gerund | girl's mother *not said here* | sausters | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sauster=Product | | 6 | **hang up** | gerund | | sausters *= sauster* | | the chimney | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in chimney=Destination | | 7 | **dry** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **retire** | past · perfect | girl *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **rest** | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/26/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)