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title: Kate rolled all the nuts she had to the fairy baby till the birdie w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Kate rolled all the nuts she had to the fairy baby till the birdie was dropped, and Kate put it in her apron. Who acts: 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 50

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Kate rolled all the nuts she had to the fairy baby till the birdie was dropped, and Kate put it in her apron.

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**Who acts:** Kate · **What happens:** roll, have, drop, put · **To what, where:** nuts, birdie, apron

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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), 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:pg7439:43:50
# text = Kate rolled all the nuts she had to the fairy baby till the birdie was dropped, and Kate put it in her apron.
1	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fairy	fairy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	dropped	drop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	apron	apron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past | Kate | all nuts |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nut=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | Kate |  |  |  |  | to the fairy baby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drop** | past · passive |  | the birdie |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **put** | past | Kate | birdie |  | Kate's apron |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in apron=Destination |

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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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