--- title: Next morning the street was full of girls with aprons held out, and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Next morning the street was full of girls with aprons held out, and gold and silver in them; but Jack's own sweetheart was among them, and she had neither gold nor silver, nought but two copper pennies, that was all she had. Who acts: street, own sweetheart, cudgel. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (street, own sweetheart, cudgel), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:45:47 # text = Next morning the street was full of girls with aprons held out, and gold and silver in them; but Jack's own sweetheart was among them, and she had neither gold nor silver, nought but two copper pennies, that was all she had. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 street street NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 aprons apron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 11 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 Jack Jack PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 's 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sweetheart sweetheart NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 among among ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 33 neither neither DET DT PronType=Neg 34 det _ _ 34 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 36 cc _ _ 36 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 nought nought PRON NN PronType=Neg 34 appos _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 41 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 compound _ _ 42 pennies penny NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 44 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 45 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 conj _ _ 47 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the street | | | | morning | of girls with aprons; full *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hold out** | participle | | aprons *not said here* | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | Jack's own sweetheart | | | | | among aprons *= apron* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | cudgel | neither gold nor silver | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | | 5 | **have** | past | cudgel | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/48/) - ↑ back to [The Ass, the Table, and the Stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/)