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title: Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour. Who acts: Sally, mother. 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 3

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Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour.

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**Who acts:** Sally, mother · **What happens:** get, work · **To what, where:** Source

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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, mother), 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:pg14241:47:3
# text = Sally had got it from her mother, who worked for Mrs. Balfour.
1	Sally	Sally	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	Balfour	Balfour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | Sally | Source |  |  |  | from Sally's mother | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from mother=Source |
| 2 | **work** | past | Sally's mother |  |  |  |  | for Mrs. | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mrs.=Beneficiary |

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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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