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title: “No, mother,” said Florentine, “no dancers for me and no minstrels,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “No, mother,” said Florentine, “no dancers for me and no minstrels, for my dear wife, the mother of my seven, boys, is to be wed to-morrow, and sad's the day for me.” Who acts: mother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 32

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“No, mother,” said Florentine, “no dancers for me and no minstrels, for my dear wife, the mother of my seven, boys, is to be wed to-morrow, and sad's the day for me.”

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**Who acts:** mother · **What happens:** say, w, be · **To what, where:** dancers, sad day · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (mother), 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:pg7439:35:32
# text = “No, mother,” said Florentine, “no dancers for me and no minstrels, for my dear wife, the mother of my seven, boys, is to be wed to-morrow, and sad's the day for me.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Florentine	Florentine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	dancers	dancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	17	det	_	_
17	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother | no dancers for me |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **w** *in a quote* | present · passive | mother *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to morrow | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the sad day |  |  |  | for mother | tree rules |

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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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