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title: The husband put on the blackest black, and pulled the longest face a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The husband put on the blackest black, and pulled the longest face at the funeral; but for all that he got up in the middle of the night, dug up the body, and cut off the golden arm. Who acts: husband. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Golden Arm, with its dependency tree and
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# English Fairy Tales, The Golden Arm, sentence 7

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The husband put on the blackest black, and pulled the longest face at the funeral; but for all that he got up in the middle of the night, dug up the body, and cut off the golden arm.

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**Who acts:** husband · **What happens:** put, pull, get up, dig up, cut off · **To what, where:** husband, blackest black, longest face, funeral, middle, body

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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 (husband), 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:pg7439:27:7
# text = The husband put on the blackest black, and pulled the longest face at the funeral; but for all that he got up in the middle of the night, dug up the body, and cut off the golden arm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	blackest	black	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
39	off	off	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | participle |  | the husband *not said here* |  | the blackest black |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on black=Destination |
| 2 | **pull** | past | the husband | the longest face |  | the funeral |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent face=Theme at funeral=Asset |
| 3 | **get up** | past | husband |  |  | the middle of the night |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **dig up** | participle | husband *not said here* | the body |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Theme |
| 5 | **cut off** | participle | the husband *not said here* | the golden arm |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector arm=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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