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title: They all noticed her beauty, and one of them said to the Baron: “You… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They all noticed her beauty, and one of them said to the Baron: “You can read fates, Baron, whom will she marry, d'ye think?” Who acts: companions, one, Baron, girl. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 16

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They all noticed her beauty, and one of them said to the Baron: “You can read fates, Baron, whom will she marry, d'ye think?”

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**Who acts:** companions, one, Baron, girl, d'ye · **What happens:** notice, say, read, marry, think · **To what, where:** beauty, Baron, fates · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (companions, one, Baron, girl), 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:pg7439:41:16
# text = They all noticed her beauty, and one of them said to the Baron: “You can read fates, Baron, whom will she marry, d'ye think?”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
3	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Baron	Baron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	read	read	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
20	fates	fate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Baron	Baron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	27	obj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	marry	marry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	d'ye	d'ye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** | past | companions *= companion* | girl's beauty |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer beauty=Stimulus |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | one of companions |  | the Baron |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to baron=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **read** *in a quote* | can | the Baron *= baron* | fates |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic |
| 4 | **marry** *in a quote* | future | girl | fates |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Patient |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | d'ye |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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