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title: But she said nothing to nobody, and as soon as the lady was well eno… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she said nothing to nobody, and as soon as the lady was well enough to mind the baby, she asked the old fellow to take her back home. Who acts: Dame. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 21

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But she said nothing to nobody, and as soon as the lady was well enough to mind the baby, she asked the old fellow to take her back home.

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**Who acts:** Dame · **What happens:** say, be, ask, take · **To what, where:** nothing, old fellow, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame), 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:pg7439:46:21
# text = But she said nothing to nobody, and as soon as the lady was well enough to mind the baby, she asked the old fellow to take her back home.
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	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
29	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Dame | nothing |  |  |  | to nobody | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the lady; enough, mind, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | Dame |  | the old fellow |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent fellow=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **take** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Dame *not said here* | Dame's back |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent back=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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