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title: Then Tommy Grimes said to Mrs. Miacca: “Does Mr. Miacca always have… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Tommy Grimes said to Mrs. Miacca: “Does Mr. Miacca always have little boys for supper?” Who acts: Tommy. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 13

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Then Tommy Grimes said to Mrs. Miacca: “Does Mr. Miacca always have little boys for supper?”

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**Who acts:** Tommy · **What happens:** say, do, have · **To what, where:** Mrs., Miacca, little boys · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tommy), 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:pg7439:36:13
# text = Then Tommy Grimes said to Mrs. Miacca: “Does Mr. Miacca always have little boys for supper?”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Grimes	Grimes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod:desc	_	_
12	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	14	advmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
15	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	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 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Tommy |  | Mrs. |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mrs.=Recipient |
| 2 | **do** *in a quote* | present | Tommy *not said here* | Miacca  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent miacca=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Tommy *not said here* | little boys |  |  |  | for supper; always *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |

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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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