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title: Here, get under the sofa, and I'll set on it and watch the pot boil… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, get under the sofa, and I'll set on it and watch the pot boil for you.” Who acts: you, I. 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 27

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Here, get under the sofa, and I'll set on it and watch the pot boil for you.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** get, set, watch · **To what, where:** sofa, pot boil

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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 (you, I), 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:pg7439:36:27
# text = Here, get under the sofa, and I'll set on it and watch the pot boil for you.”
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	get	get	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sofa	sofa	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	watch	watch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | the sofa; here |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **set** | future | I |  |  | sofa |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on it=Destination |
| 3 | **watch** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the pot boil |  |  |  | for you | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent boil=Location for you=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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