--- title: This insult went to Catskin's heart, so she went to her husband, the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: This insult went to Catskin's heart, so she went to her husband, the young lord, and told him all about her father, and begged he would go and find out what had become of her parents. Who acts: insult, lord. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (insult, lord), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:32:25 # text = This insult went to Catskin's heart, so she went to her husband, the young lord, and told him all about her father, and begged he would go and find out what had become of her parents. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 insult insult NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 Catskin Catskin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 lord lord NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 all all ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 24 about about ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 ccomp _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 35 out out ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 38 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 ccomp _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 parents parent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | this insult | | | Catskin's heart | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **go** | past | insult | | | | | to insult's husband | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to husband=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | this insult *not said here* | | lord | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | this insult *not said here* | | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | would | lord | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **find out** | infinitive | lord *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **become** | past · perfect | | | | | | of insult's parents | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/26/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/32/)