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title: So she went back to her work with a sigh, and set to cleaning a huge… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she went back to her work with a sigh, and set to cleaning a huge big fish that was to be boiled for their dinner. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 48

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So she went back to her work with a sigh, and set to cleaning a huge big fish that was to be boiled for their dinner.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** go back, set, clean, boil, work · **To what, where:** huge big fish

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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 (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:pg7439:41:48
# text = So she went back to her work with a sigh, and set to cleaning a huge big fish that was to be boiled for their dinner.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	back	back	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	cleaning	clean	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go back** | past | girl |  |  |  |  | to girl's work with a sigh *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to work=Result |
| 2 | **set** | infinitive | girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **clean** | gerund | girl *not said here* | a huge big fish |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
| 4 | **boil** | past · passive | girl *not said here* | a huge big fish |  |  |  | for arms's dinner | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for dinner=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **work** |  | girl |  |  |  |  | with a sigh | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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