--- title: His mother, who was very sorry to see her darling in such a woeful s… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: His mother, who was very sorry to see her darling in such a woeful state, put him into a teacup, and soon washed off the batter; after which she kissed him, and laid him in bed. Who acts: mother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/24/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/) / 24 # English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 24 His mother, who was very sorry to see her darling in such a woeful state, put him into a teacup, and soon washed off the batter; after which she kissed him, and laid him in bed. **Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** be, see, put, wash off, kiss, lay · **To what, where:** darling, woeful state, Tom, teacup, batter, bed This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:28:24 # text = His mother, who was very sorry to see her darling in such a woeful state, put him into a teacup, and soon washed off the batter; after which she kissed him, and laid him in bed. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 sorry sorry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 darling darling ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 13 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 16 det:predet _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 woeful woeful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 state state NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 teacup teacup NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 26 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 parataxis _ _ 27 off off ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 batter batter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 34 obl _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 kissed kiss VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Tom's mother | | | | | sorry *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Tom's mother *not said here* | mother's darling | | such woeful state | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer darling=Stimulus | | 3 | **put** | infinitive | Tom's mother *not said here* | | Tom | a teacup | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | | 4 | **wash off** | participle | | the batter | | | | soon *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent batter=Patient | | 5 | **kiss** | past | mother | Tom | | | | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 6 | **lay** | past | mother *not said here* | Tom | | bed | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in bed=Destination | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/25/) - ↑ back to [The History of Tom Thumb](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/28/)