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title: Now there was a fine large walnut-tree growing by the cottage, and t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there was a fine large walnut-tree growing by the cottage, and the tree said to the form: “Form, why do you run round the house?” Who acts: fine large walnut tree, tree, form. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, with its dependency tree and the prag
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# English Fairy Tales, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse, sentence 22

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Now there was a fine large walnut-tree growing by the cottage, and the tree said to the form: “Form, why do you run round the house?”

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**Who acts:** fine large walnut tree, tree, form · **What happens:** be, grow, say, run · **To what, where:** form, house · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine large walnut tree, tree, form), 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:pg7439:19:22
# text = Now there was a fine large walnut-tree growing by the cottage, and the tree said to the form: “Form, why do you run round the house?”
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	walnut	walnut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
10	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
27	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
28	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
30	round	round	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a fine large walnut tree |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | gerund | a fine large walnut tree *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the cottage | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cottage=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the tree |  | the form |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to form=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **run** *in a quote* | present · do-support | the form *= form* | Form |  | the house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round house=Trajectory |

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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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