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title: Off the castle went at full speed, with the women laughing at them t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Off the castle went at full speed, with the women laughing at them through the window, while they made motions for them to stop, but all to no purpose. Who acts: women, man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 104

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Off the castle went at full speed, with the women laughing at them through the window, while they made motions for them to stop, but all to no purpose.

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**Who acts:** women, man · **What happens:** go, laugh, make, stop · **To what, where:** full speed, window, motions

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (women, man), 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:pg7439:20:104
# text = Off the castle went at full speed, with the women laughing at them through the window, while they made motions for them to stop, but all to no purpose.
1	Off	off	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	motions	motion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	det	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	32	det	_	_
32	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  |  |  | full speed |  | off the castle; with the women; to all purpose | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme off castle=Initial\_Location to purpose=Destination |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund | the women *not said here* |  |  | the window |  | at man | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | man | motions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset motion=Product |
| 4 | **stop** | to-infinitive | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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