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title: And away went the wife to the parlour chimney, and she pulled the ra… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And away went the wife to the parlour chimney, and she pulled the rag with the ten pounds in it from the chimney, and she gave the whole sum to the soldier, telling him that her old man was to use as much as he wanted, and to send back the rest. Who acts: wife, old man, Deary. A sentence of «English
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 23

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And away went the wife to the parlour chimney, and she pulled the rag with the ten pounds in it from the chimney, and she gave the whole sum to the soldier, telling him that her old man was to use as much as he wanted, and to send back the rest.

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**Who acts:** wife, old man, Deary · **What happens:** go, pull, give, tell, be, want · **To what, where:** wife, rag, whole sum, soldier, Deary, rest · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (wife, old man, Deary), 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:pg7439:13:23
# text = And away went the wife to the parlour chimney, and she pulled the rag with the ten pounds in it from the chimney, and she gave the whole sum to the soldier, telling him that her old man was to use as much as he wanted, and to send back the rest.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	away	away	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	parlour	parlour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	telling	tell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	advcl	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	iobj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
39	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
45	as	as	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obj	_	_
47	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
54	back	back	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	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 |  | the wife |  |  |  | to the parlour chimney; away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme |
| 2 | **pull** | past | wife | the rag |  | rag |  | with the ten pounds; from the chimney | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent rag=Theme from chimney=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **give** | past | wife | the whole sum | the soldier |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent sum=Theme to soldier=Recipient |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | wife *not said here* |  | Deary |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is** *not said to happen* | past | wife's old man |  |  |  |  | use *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **want** | past | Deary |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **send back** | to-infinitive |  | the rest |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Theme |

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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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