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title: The mother was up first the next morning, and when she came into the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The mother was up first the next morning, and when she came into the kitchen and found her sausters all gone, and the seven hanks of yarn lying beautifully smooth and bright upon the table, she ran out of the house wildly, crying out-- Who acts: mother, seven hanks. A sentence of «More English Fairy
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 27

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The mother was up first the next morning, and when she came into the kitchen and found her sausters all gone, and the seven hanks of yarn lying beautifully smooth and bright upon the table, she ran out of the house wildly, crying out--

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**Who acts:** mother, seven hanks · **What happens:** be, come, find, lie, run, cry out · **To what, where:** next morning, kitchen, sausters, smooth, house

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, seven hanks), 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:pg14241:31:27
# text = The mother was up first the next morning, and when she came into the kitchen and found her sausters all gone, and the seven hanks of yarn lying beautifully smooth and bright upon the table, she ran out of the house wildly, crying out--
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	up	up	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sausters	sauster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	all	all	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	hanks	hank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	parataxis	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	acl	_	_
31	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	_
41	out	out	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	wildly	wildly	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
47	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	advcl	_	_
48	out	out	ADP	RP	_	47	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the mother | the next morning |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | mother |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into kitchen=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | mother *not said here* | mother's sausters |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sauster=Topic |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | the seven hanks of yarn *not said here* | smooth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location smooth=Theme |
| 5 | **run** | past | mother |  |  | the house |  | wildly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory |
| 6 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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