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title: “Well, there,” says she, “I should ha' liked to ha' seen her.” — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, there,” says she, “I should ha' liked to ha' seen her.” Who acts: I. 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 41

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“Well, there,” says she, “I should ha' liked to ha' seen her.”

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** say, ha, like, see · **To what, where:** dance · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I), 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:pg7439:15:41
# text = “Well, there,” says she, “I should ha' liked to ha' seen her.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	ha	ha	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	_
15	liked	like	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	ha	ha	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	_
19	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | dance |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **ha** *in a quote* | should | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **like** *in a quote* | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **ha** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** *in a quote* | participle | I *not said here* | dance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |

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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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