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description: At last the steward called out to the dairy maids, "Bring all your milk hither," and when they did so, and had brought all the milk that the nine kye of the byre had yielded, he poured it all into the long stone trough in front of the Hall. Who acts: dairy maids, dog, you, milk. A sentence of «More 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 114

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At last the steward called out to the dairy maids, "Bring all your milk hither," and when they did so, and had brought all the milk that the nine kye of the byre had yielded, he poured it all into the long stone trough in front of the Hall.

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**Who acts:** dairy maids, dog, you, milk, man · **What happens:** call out, bring, do, yield, pour · **To what, where:** last steward, dairy maids, milk, nine kye, kye, long stone trough · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dairy maids, dog, you, milk), 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:pg14241:32:114
# text = At last the steward called out to the dairy maids, "Bring all your milk hither," and when they did so, and had brought all the milk that the nine kye of the byre had yielded, he poured it all into the long stone trough in front of the Hall.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	steward	steward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	dairy	dairy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj:pass	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	byre	byre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
44	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	det	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
48	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
49	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	_
50	trough	trough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nmod	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  | the last steward *not said here* | the dairy maids |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to maid=Recipient |
| 2 | **bring** *in a quote* | imperative | the dairy maids *= maid* *not said here* | your milk |  | the last steward |  | hither *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bring** | past · perfect | you *not said here* | all milk |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
| 5 | **yield** | past · perfect · passive | all milk *not said here* | the nine kye of the byre |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **pour** | past | man | kye |  | the long stone trough in front of the Hall |  |  | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into trough=Destination |

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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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