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title: So Anne set out, but as she passed through the kitchen she saw a cru… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Anne set out, but as she passed through the kitchen she saw a crust, and she took and munched it as she went along. Who acts: Anne. 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 6

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So Anne set out, but as she passed through the kitchen she saw a crust, and she took and munched it as she went along.

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**Who acts:** Anne · **What happens:** set out, pass, see, take, munch, go along · **To what, where:** kitchen, crust

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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 (Anne), 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:pg7439:43:6
# text = So Anne set out, but as she passed through the kitchen she saw a crust, and she took and munched it as she went along.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Anne	Anne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crust	crust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	munched	munch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
27	along	along	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set out** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Anne |  |  | the kitchen |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through kitchen=Location |
| 3 | **see** | past | Anne | a crust |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crust=Stimulus |
| 4 | **take** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **munch** | past | Anne *not said here* | crust |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 6 | **go along** | past | Anne |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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