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title: The babe becomes bearded, and the other woman raising her hand to wi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The babe becomes bearded, and the other woman raising her hand to wipe her eyes finds her nose following her hand--_dénouement_ on which the scene closes. Who acts: babe, other woman, scene. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes, with its dependency tree an
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXV. the Three Wishes, sentence 7

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The babe becomes bearded, and the other woman raising her hand to wipe her eyes finds her nose following her hand--\_dénouement\_ on which the scene closes.

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**Who acts:** babe, other woman, scene · **What happens:** become, raise, wipe, find, follow, close · **To what, where:** hand, eyes, nose, dénouement

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXV. the Three Wishes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babe, other woman, scene), 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:pg14241:56:7
# text = The babe becomes bearded, and the other woman raising her hand to wipe her eyes finds her nose following her hand--_dénouement_ on which the scene closes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	bearded	bearded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
10	raising	raise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	wipe	wipe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	dénouement	dénouement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	25	punct	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	closes	close	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the babe |  |  |  |  | bearded *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **raise** | gerund | the other woman *not said here* | babe's hand |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 3 | **wipe** | to-infinitive | the other woman *not said here* | babe's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source |
| 4 | **find** | present | the other woman | babe's nose |  |  |  | dénouement *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Topic |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund | the other woman *not said here* | babe's hand |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 6 | **close** | present | the scene |  |  | dénouement |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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