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description: All, however, made the bridegroom understand what was the cause of their ugliness; while Habetrot slily hinted that if his wife were allowed to spin, her pretty lips would grow out of shape too, and her pretty face get an ugsome look. Who acts: bridegroom, Habetrot, wife, pretty lips. A sentence of 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 49

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All, however, made the bridegroom understand what was the cause of their ugliness; while Habetrot slily hinted that if his wife were allowed to spin, her pretty lips would grow out of shape too, and her pretty face get an ugsome look.

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**Who acts:** bridegroom, Habetrot, wife, pretty lips, pretty face · **What happens:** make, understand, hint, allow, spin, grow out · **To what, where:** All, wife, shape, ugsome look, ugliness

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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 (bridegroom, Habetrot, wife, pretty lips), 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:pg14241:31:49
# text = All, however, made the bridegroom understand what was the cause of their ugliness; while Habetrot slily hinted that if his wife were allowed to spin, her pretty lips would grow out of shape too, and her pretty face get an ugsome look.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	8	obj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	ugliness	ugliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Habetrot	Habetrot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	slily	slily	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	hinted	hint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
33	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	grow	grow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
35	out	out	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	get	get	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	ugsome	ugsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past |  | All |  |  |  | however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **understand** | infinitive | the bridegroom |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hint** *speech: other* | past | Habetrot |  |  |  |  | slily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **allow** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | cause's wife |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **spin** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | cause's wife *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **grow out** | would | Habetrot's pretty lips | shape |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shape=Theme |
| 7 | **get** | present | Habetrot's pretty face | a ugsome look |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer look=Stimulus |
| 8 | **cause** |  |  | tone's ugliness |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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