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title: One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garde… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along. Who acts: daughter. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 1

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One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along.

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**Who acts:** daughter · **What happens:** go, dance, trip · **To what, where:** castle garden

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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:pg7439:35:1
# text = One fine summer's day Earl Mar's daughter went into the castle garden, dancing and tripping along.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
2	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	Earl	Earl	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Mar	March	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tripping	trip	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	along	along	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Earl's daughter |  |  | the castle garden | day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into garden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **dance** | gerund | Earl's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **trip** | gerund | Earl's daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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