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title: One said to the other, "To-morrow is our pay-day, and what shall we… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One said to the other, "To-morrow is our pay-day, and what shall we find to send our money to our landlord?" Who acts: One, we. 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 82

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One said to the other, "To-morrow is our pay-day, and what shall we find to send our money to our landlord?"

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**Who acts:** One, we · **What happens:** say, be, find, send · **To what, where:** other, pay day, money, landlord · **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 (One, we), 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:pg14241:33:82
# text = One said to the other, "To-morrow is our pay-day, and what shall we find to send our money to our landlord?"
1	One	one	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	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	,	_	15	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	To	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pay	pay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	21	obj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | One |  | the other |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | our pay day |  |  |  | to morrow | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **send** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our money |  | our landlord |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent money=Theme to landlord=Destination |

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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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