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title: Why of course it's the laddie you caught last night that I've broile… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why of course it's the laddie you caught last night that I've broiled for your breakfast. Who acts: course, you, I. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and the Beanstalk, sentence 106

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Why of course it's the laddie you caught last night that I've broiled for your breakfast.

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**Who acts:** course, you, I · **What happens:** be, catch, broil · **To what, where:** laddie, last night

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (course, you, 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:pg7439:16:106
# text = Why of course it's the laddie you caught last night that I've broiled for your breakfast.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
3	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	laddie	laddie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obj	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	've	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	broiled	broil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | course |  |  |  |  | of the laddie | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | you | the laddie *not said here* |  |  | night |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laddie=Theme |
| 3 | **broil** | present · perfect | I | last night |  |  |  | for your breakfast | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent that=Patient for breakfast=Beneficiary |

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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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