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title: And she went to the hen-wife, who taught her an unspelling catch whi… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And she went to the hen-wife, who taught her an unspelling catch which would keep Nix Nought Nothing awake as long as the gardener's daughter liked. Who acts: daughter, hen wife, unspelling catch. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing, with its dependency tree and 
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 67

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And she went to the hen-wife, who taught her an unspelling catch which would keep Nix Nought Nothing awake as long as the gardener's daughter liked.

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**Who acts:** daughter, hen wife, unspelling catch · **What happens:** go, teach, unspell, keep, like · **To what, where:** unspelling catch, daughter, Nix

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, hen wife, unspelling catch), 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:pg7439:12:67
# text = And she went to the hen-wife, who taught her an unspelling catch which would keep Nix Nought Nothing awake as long as the gardener's daughter liked.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	taught	teach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	unspelling	unspell	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	catch	catch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
19	Nix	Nix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	Nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	21	compound	_	_
21	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
22	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	as	as	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	gardener	gardener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	's	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	liked	like	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | daughter |  |  |  |  | to the hen wife | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wife=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past | the hen wife | a unspelling catch | daughter |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient catch=Topic |
| 3 | **unspell** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | would | a unspelling catch | Nix |  |  |  | long *property* | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nix=Theme nothing=Attribute |
| 5 | **like** | past | the gardener's daughter |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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