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title: Well, who should be there but her master's son, and what should he d… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, who should be there but her master's son, and what should he do but fall in love with her the minute he set eyes on her. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Cap O' Rushes, sentence 25

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Well, who should be there but her master's son, and what should he do but fall in love with her the minute he set eyes on her.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** be, do, fall, set · **To what, where:** love, eyes

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Cap O' Rushes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman), 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:pg7439:15:25
# text = Well, who should be there but her master's son, and what should he do but fall in love with her the minute he set eyes on her.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
4	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
6	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	obj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | should |  |  |  |  |  | there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | should | gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fall** | infinitive | gentleman *not said here* |  |  | love | minute | with maid | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location |
| 4 | **set** | past | gentleman | eyes |  |  |  | on maid | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on she=Destination |

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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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