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title: But she sees a fairy baby playing with a wand, and overhears one of… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she sees a fairy baby playing with a wand, and overhears one of the fairies say: “Three strokes of that wand would make Kate's sick sister as bonnie as ever she was.” Who acts: Kate, fairy baby, one, Three strokes. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its 
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 44

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But she sees a fairy baby playing with a wand, and overhears one of the fairies say: “Three strokes of that wand would make Kate's sick sister as bonnie as ever she was.”

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**Who acts:** Kate, fairy baby, one, Three strokes · **What happens:** see, play, overhear, say, make, be · **To what, where:** fairy baby, sick sister, wand · **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 (Kate, fairy baby, one, Three strokes), 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:pg7439:43:44
# text = But she sees a fairy baby playing with a wand, and overhears one of the fairies say: “Three strokes of that wand would make Kate's sick sister as bonnie as ever she was.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	overhears	overhear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	strokes	stroke	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
28	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	's	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	bonnie	bonnie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	37	advmod	_	_
36	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Kate | a fairy baby |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer baby=Stimulus |
| 2 | **play** | gerund | a fairy baby *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a wand | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wand=Theme |
| 3 | **overhear** | present | Kate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | one of the fairies |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **make** *in a quote* | would | Three strokes of that wand | Kate's sick sister |  |  |  | as bonnie | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sister=Product |
| 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | Kate |  |  |  | ever |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **stroke** *in a quote* |  |  | that wand |  |  |  |  | nom stroke «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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