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title: “With carrying broom, with carrying broom” (_gruffly_). — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “With carrying broom, with carrying broom” (_gruffly_). A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Strange Visitor, sentence 36

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“With carrying broom, with carrying broom” (\_gruffly\_).

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**What happens:** carry · **To what, where:** broom

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Strange Visitor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:38:36
# text = “With carrying broom, with carrying broom” (_gruffly_).
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
8	broom	broom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** *in a quote* | gerund |  | broom |  |  |  | gruffly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=Theme |
| 2 | **carry** *in a quote* | gerund |  | broom |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broom=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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