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title: _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she lived in the Cars in Lincolnshire. Who acts: Sally. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LVI. Tattercoats, sentence 2

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\_--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she lived in the Cars in Lincolnshire.

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**Who acts:** Sally · **What happens:** tell, name, live · **To what, where:** little girl, Cars · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LVI. Tattercoats. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sally), 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:pg14241:47:2
# text = _--Told to Mrs. Balfour by a little girl named Sally Brown, when she lived in the Cars in Lincolnshire.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl:agent	_	_
6	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
13	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Cars	Car	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Lincolnshire	Lincolnshire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by a little girl | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a little girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | Sally |  |  | the Cars |  | in Lincolnshire | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in car=Location |

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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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