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title: Well, so they were married, and after a time a dear little son came… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, so they were married, and after a time a dear little son came to them, and grew up a bonny lad; and one day, when he was four years old, a beggar woman came to the door, so Lady Catskin gave some money to the little lord and told him to go and give it to the beggar woman. Who acts: son, beggar
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 22

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Well, so they were married, and after a time a dear little son came to them, and grew up a bonny lad; and one day, when he was four years old, a beggar woman came to the door, so Lady Catskin gave some money to the little lord and told him to go and give it to the beggar woman.

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**Who acts:** son, beggar woman, Lady · **What happens:** marry, come, grow up, be, give, tell · **To what, where:** feathers, bonny lad, door, money, little lord, son · **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 (son, beggar woman, Lady), 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:pg14241:32:22
# text = Well, so they were married, and after a time a dear little son came to them, and grew up a bonny lad; and one day, when he was four years old, a beggar woman came to the door, so Lady Catskin gave some money to the little lord and told him to go and give it to the beggar woman.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	bonny	bonny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	36	mark	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	conj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
47	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
48	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	flat	_	_
49	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	parataxis	_	_
50	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
57	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
58	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	iobj	_	_
59	to	to	PART	TO	_	60	mark	_	_
60	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	57	xcomp	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
62	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	60	conj	_	_
63	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	obj	_	_
64	to	to	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	beggar	beggar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	compound	_	_
67	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | feathers *= feather* |  |  | day |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **come** | past |  |  | feathers *= feather* |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **grow up** | past |  | a bonny lad |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | son |  |  |  | year | old *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | past | a beggar woman |  |  | the door |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **give** | past | Lady | some money | the little lord |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent money=Theme to lord=Recipient |
| 7 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Lady *not said here* |  | son |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 8 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **give** | infinitive | Lady *not said here* | money | the beggar woman |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to woman=Recipient |

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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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