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title: “Now, that's a thoughtful boy,” said Mrs. Miacca, “only don't be lon… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, that's a thoughtful boy,” said Mrs. Miacca, “only don't be long and be sure to be back for supper.” Who acts: that, thoughtful boy. 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 21

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“Now, that's a thoughtful boy,” said Mrs. Miacca, “only don't be long and be sure to be back for supper.”

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**Who acts:** that, thoughtful boy · **What happens:** be, say, not be · **To what, where:** thoughtful boy · **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 (that, thoughtful boy), 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:pg7439:36:21
# text = “Now, that's a thoughtful boy,” said Mrs. Miacca, “only don't be long and be sure to be back for supper.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	thoughtful	thoughtful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
13	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
17	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	ccomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | that | a thoughtful boy |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | a thoughtful boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for supper; back *property* | 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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