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title: At midnight she went as before, and was angry with old Lucifer for l… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At midnight she went as before, and was angry with old Lucifer for letting the handkerchief go. Who acts: cap, handkerchief. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 77

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At midnight she went as before, and was angry with old Lucifer for letting the handkerchief go.

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**Who acts:** cap, handkerchief · **What happens:** go, be, let · **To what, where:** handkerchief

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cap, handkerchief), 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:pg7439:23:77
# text = At midnight she went as before, and was angry with old Lucifer for letting the handkerchief go.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	letting	let	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	handkerchief	handkerchief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	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 | cap |  |  |  | midnight | before *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with old Lucifer; angry *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | gerund |  | the handkerchief |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | infinitive | the handkerchief *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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