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title: At cockcrow they set off again, but instead of cracking her nuts as… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At cockcrow they set off again, but instead of cracking her nuts as she used to do, this time Kate plucked the feathers off and cooked the birdie. Who acts: nuts, Kate, time. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Kate Crackernuts, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# English Fairy Tales, Kate Crackernuts, sentence 51

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At cockcrow they set off again, but instead of cracking her nuts as she used to do, this time Kate plucked the feathers off and cooked the birdie.

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**Who acts:** nuts, Kate, time · **What happens:** set off, crack, use, do, pluck off, cook · **To what, where:** cockcrow, nuts, feathers, birdie

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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 (nuts, Kate, time), 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:pg7439:43:51
# text = At cockcrow they set off again, but instead of cracking her nuts as she used to do, this time Kate plucked the feathers off and cooked the birdie.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	cockcrow	cockcrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=SCONJ	11	mark	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	fixed	_	_
11	cracking	crack	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	Kate	Kate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	_
23	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	cooked	cook	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	birdie	birdie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past | nuts *= nut* |  |  | cockcrow | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **crack** | gerund | nuts *= nut* *not said here* | Kate's nuts |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nut=Theme |
| 3 | **use** | past | Kate |  |  |  |  |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | Kate *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **pluck off** | past | this time | the feathers |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient |
| 6 | **cook** | past | this time *not said here* | the birdie |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent birdie=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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