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title: “Lord a' mercy! and maybe you've seen my old man there,” alluding to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Lord a' mercy! and maybe you've seen my old man there,” alluding to her former husband. Who acts: you, Lord. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 14

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“Lord a' mercy! and maybe you've seen my old man there,” alluding to her former husband.

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**Who acts:** you, Lord · **What happens:** see, allude · **To what, where:** old man

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Lord), 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:pg7439:13:14
# text = “Lord a' mercy! and maybe you've seen my old man there,” alluding to her former husband.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	maybe	maybe	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
18	alluding	allude	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | my old man |  | there |  | maybe *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |
| 2 | **allude** | gerund | Lord *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to Jack's former husband | tree rules |

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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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