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title: “Ah, I loves pudding,” says Mrs. Miacca. — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Ah, I loves pudding,” says Mrs. Miacca. Who acts: Mrs.. 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 17

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“Ah, I loves pudding,” says Mrs. Miacca.

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**Who acts:** Mrs. · **What happens:** love, say · **To what, where:** pudding · **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 (Mrs.), 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:pg7439:36:17
# text = “Ah, I loves pudding,” says Mrs. Miacca.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	loves	love	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
6	pudding	pudding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
9	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
11	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** *in a quote* | present | Mrs. | pudding |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pudding=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Mrs. |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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