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title: Catskin told the cook how much she would like to go to the ball, the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Catskin told the cook how much she would like to go to the ball, the cook called her "a dirty slut," and broke the skimmer across her head. Who acts: Catskin, cook. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 8

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Catskin told the cook how much she would like to go to the ball, the cook called her "a dirty slut," and broke the skimmer across her head.

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**Who acts:** Catskin, cook · **What happens:** tell, like, go, call, break · **To what, where:** cook, much, ball, catskin, skimmer, head · **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 (Catskin, cook), 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:pg14241:32:8
# text = Catskin told the cook how much she would like to go to the ball, the cook called her "a dirty slut," and broke the skimmer across her head.
1	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
6	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ball	ball	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	slut	slut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	skimmer	skimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	across	across	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Catskin |  | the cook |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent cook=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **like** | would | catskin | much |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | catskin *not said here* |  |  | the ball |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ball=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **call** | past | the cook |  | catskin |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
| 5 | **break** | past | the cook *not said here* | the skimmer |  | catskin's head |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer skimmer=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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