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title: "Buy sheep?" said the other, "and which way will you bring them home?" — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Buy sheep?" said the other, "and which way will you bring them home?" Who acts: you, other, way. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 24

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"Buy sheep?" said the other, "and which way will you bring them home?"

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**Who acts:** you, other, way · **What happens:** buy, say, bring · **To what, where:** sheep · **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 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, other, way), 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:pg14241:33:24
# text = "Buy sheep?" said the other, "and which way will you bring them home?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Buy	buy	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	13	det	_	_
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buy** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | sheep |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the other |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | future | which way | Sheep |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=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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