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title: Now Dame Goody did not think it her business to interfere, but she t… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Dame Goody did not think it her business to interfere, but she thought she ought not to let so good a customer pass without speaking. Who acts: Dame, good customer pass. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 27

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Now Dame Goody did not think it her business to interfere, but she thought she ought not to let so good a customer pass without speaking.

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**Who acts:** Dame, good customer pass · **What happens:** not think, interfere, think, not let, speak · **To what, where:** notice, good customer pass · **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, good customer pass), 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:pg7439:46:27
# text = Now Dame Goody did not think it her business to interfere, but she thought she ought not to let so good a customer pass without speaking.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Goody	Goody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	interfere	interfere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
17	ought	ought	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	customer	customer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
26	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | past · do-support | Dame | notice |  |  | now |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme business=Attribute |
| 2 | **interfere** | to-infinitive | Dame *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Dame |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **let** | ought | Dame | a good customer pass |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Theme |
| 5 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | a good customer pass *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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