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title: There the fisherman found her, and took pity on the poor little thin… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There the fisherman found her, and took pity on the poor little thing and took her into his house, and she lived there till she was fifteen years old, and a fine handsome girl. Who acts: fisherman, lass. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring, with its dependency
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# English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 14

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There the fisherman found her, and took pity on the poor little thing and took her into his house, and she lived there till she was fifteen years old, and a fine handsome girl.

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**Who acts:** fisherman, lass · **What happens:** find, take, live, be · **To what, where:** lass, pity, poor little thing, house

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, lass), 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:pg7439:41:14
# text = There the fisherman found her, and took pity on the poor little thing and took her into his house, and she lived there till she was fifteen years old, and a fine handsome girl.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fisherman	fisherman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	pity	pity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
26	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
29	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | the fisherman | lass |  | there |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | past | the fisherman *not said here* | pity |  | the poor little thing |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pity=Theme on thing=Destination |
| 3 | **take** | past | the fisherman *not said here* | lass |  | fisherman's house |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into house=Destination |
| 4 | **live** | past | lass |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | lass |  |  |  | year | old *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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