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title: Now the wicked old cook--why hadn't she been sent away?--was looking… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the wicked old cook--why hadn't she been sent away?--was looking on, so she said, "Only see how beggars' brats take to one another." Who acts: wicked old cook, cook, brats. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 24

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Now the wicked old cook--why hadn't she been sent away?--was looking on, so she said, "Only see how beggars' brats take to one another."

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**Who acts:** wicked old cook, cook, brats · **What happens:** not send away, look on, say, see, take · **To what, where:** cook, one · **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 (wicked old cook, cook, brats), 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:pg14241:32:24
# text = Now the wicked old cook--why hadn't she been sent away?--was looking on, so she said, "Only see how beggars' brats take to one another."
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
13	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Only	only	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
28	beggars	beggar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	brats	brat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	31	obj	_	_
34	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	33	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **send away** | past · perfect · passive |  | cook |  |  |  | away *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look on** | past · progressive | the wicked old cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | cook |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | present | beggars's brats | one |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |

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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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