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title: When the morning sun rose they came in and found Kate sitting down b… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the morning sun rose they came in and found Kate sitting down by the fire and cracking her nuts. Who acts: morning sun, fairies, Kate. 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 39

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When the morning sun rose they came in and found Kate sitting down by the fire and cracking her nuts.

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**Who acts:** morning sun, fairies, Kate · **What happens:** rise, come in, find, sit down, crack · **To what, where:** Kate, nuts

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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 (morning sun, fairies, Kate), 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:pg7439:43:39
# text = When the morning sun rose they came in and found Kate sitting down by the fire and cracking her nuts.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
11	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	xcomp	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	conj	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | the morning sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come in** | past | fairies *= fairy* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | fairies *= fairy* *not said here* | Kate |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent kate=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **sit down** | gerund | Kate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the fire; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location |
| 5 | **crack** | gerund | Kate *not said here* | Kate's nuts |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=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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