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title: They were nine days on their journey, in which they did try to keep… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They were nine days on their journey, in which they did try to keep the Sunday holy, when one of the little men turned to be the priest, the other the clerk, and third presided at the organ, and the women were the singers, for they had a grand chapel in the castle already. Who acts: man, one, women.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 105

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They were nine days on their journey, in which they did try to keep the Sunday holy, when one of the little men turned to be the priest, the other the clerk, and third presided at the organ, and the women were the singers, for they had a grand chapel in the castle already.

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**Who acts:** man, one, women · **What happens:** be, try, keep, turn, preside, have · **To what, where:** nine days, journey, priest, third, organ, singers

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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 (man, one, women), 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:pg7439:20:105
# text = They were nine days on their journey, in which they did try to keep the Sunday holy, when one of the little men turned to be the priest, the other the clerk, and third presided at the organ, and the women were the singers, for they had a grand chapel in the castle already.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Sunday	Sunday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
20	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
26	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	clerk	clerk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	presided	preside	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
40	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
47	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	singers	singer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
53	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	conj	_	_
54	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	_
57	in	in	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
60	already	already	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | man | nine days |  | man's journey |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **try** | past · do-support | man |  |  |  | in nine days |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **keep** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | man *not said here* |  |  |  | sunday | holy *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past | one of the little men |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive | one of the little men *not said here* | the priest |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **preside** | participle · passive |  | third |  | the organ |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is a** | past | the women | the singers |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **have** | past | man | a grand chapel |  | the castle |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chapel=Patient |
| 9 | **journey** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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