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title: Why, bodies and skeletons of beautiful young ladies all stained with… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, bodies and skeletons of beautiful young ladies all stained with blood. Who acts: bodies. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 4

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Why, bodies and skeletons of beautiful young ladies all stained with blood.

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**Who acts:** bodies · **What happens:** stain

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bodies), 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:pg7439:31:4
# text = Why, bodies and skeletons of beautiful young ladies all stained with blood.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	bodies	body	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	skeletons	skeleton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
10	all	all	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	stained	stain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stain** | past | bodies of beautiful young ladies and skeletons |  |  |  |  | with blood; all *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with blood=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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