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title: Then the henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, “Tell your minnie… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, “Tell your minnie the pot won't boil if the fire's away.” Who acts: henwife, pot, fire. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 14

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Then the henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, “Tell your minnie the pot won't boil if the fire's away.”

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**Who acts:** henwife, pot, fire · **What happens:** be, say, tell, not boil · **To what, where:** Anne, minnie · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (henwife, pot, fire), 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:pg7439:43:14
# text = Then the henwife was rare angry and said to Anne, “Tell your minnie the pot won't boil if the fire's away.”
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	henwife	henwife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	minnie	minnie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	wo	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	boil	boil	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
21	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the henwife |  |  |  | then | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the henwife *not said here* |  | Anne |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to anne=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your minnie |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent minnie=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **boil** *in a quote* | future | the pot |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | the fire |  |  |  |  | away *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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