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title: “All withered and wasted away,” replied the ghost, in a hollow tone. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “All withered and wasted away,” replied the ghost, in a hollow tone. Who acts: ghost. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 12

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“All withered and wasted away,” replied the ghost, in a hollow tone.

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**Who acts:** ghost · **What happens:** wither, waste away, reply · **To what, where:** hollow tone · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ghost), 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:pg7439:27:12
# text = “All withered and wasted away,” replied the ghost, in a hollow tone.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nsubj	_	_
3	withered	wither	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wasted	waste	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	hollow	hollow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wither** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **waste away** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the ghost |  |  | a hollow tone |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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