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title: So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure every one was sleeping sound. Who acts: Molly, one. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Molly Whuppie, sentence 19

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So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure every one was sleeping sound.

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**Who acts:** Molly, one · **What happens:** take, not fall, wait, be, sleep · **To what, where:** care, sound

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Molly Whuppie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Molly, one), 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:pg7439:25:19
# text = So Molly took care and did not fall asleep, but waited till she was sure every one was sleeping sound.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Molly	Molly	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	ccomp	_	_
21	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Molly | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **fall** | past · do-support | Molly *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wait** | past | Molly *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | Molly |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sleep** | past · progressive | every one | sound |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=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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