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title: But then all he could find of her where they had put her to rest wer… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But then all he could find of her where they had put her to rest were her bones and her golden hair. Who acts: all, pearls. 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 74

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But then all he could find of her where they had put her to rest were her bones and her golden hair.

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**Who acts:** all, pearls · **What happens:** find, put, rest, be · **To what, where:** BINNORIE

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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 (all, pearls), 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:pg7439:13:74
# text = But then all he could find of her where they had put her to rest were her bones and her golden hair.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	compound	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | all |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past · perfect | pearls *= pearl* |  | BINNORIE |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal |
| 3 | **rest** | to-infinitive | pearls *= pearl* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of BINNORIE's put bones and BINNORIE's golden hair | 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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