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description: One consulted with the other, and agreed that such fish should be cast into their pond (which was in the middle of the town), that they might breed against the next year, and every man that had salt fish left cast them into the pool. Who acts: pond, fish, man. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 65

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One consulted with the other, and agreed that such fish should be cast into their pond (which was in the middle of the town), that they might breed against the next year, and every man that had salt fish left cast them into the pool.

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**Who acts:** pond, fish, man · **What happens:** consult, agree, cast, be, breed, have · **To what, where:** One, such fish, pond, middle, salt fish, fish · **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 (pond, fish, man), 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:pg14241:33:65
# text = One consulted with the other, and agreed that such fish should be cast into their pond (which was in the middle of the town), that they might breed against the next year, and every man that had salt fish left cast them into the pool.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	cast	cast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
33	against	against	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	_
44	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	_
45	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	acl	_	_
46	cast	cast	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
47	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obj	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consult** | participle · passive |  | One |  |  |  | with the other | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **cast** | should · passive |  | such fish |  | fish's pond |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into pond=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | fish's pond |  |  | the middle |  | of the town | tree rules |
| 5 | **breed** | might | fish |  |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** | past | every man | salt fish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 7 | **leave** | participle |  | salt fish *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **cast** | present | every man | fish |  | the pool |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into pool=Product |

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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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