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title: So she ups to him and bobs a curtsey and said: “Gooden, sir, I hopes… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So she ups to him and bobs a curtsey and said: “Gooden, sir, I hopes as how your good lady and the little one are as well as----” Who acts: Dame, ups, Gooden, good lady. 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 28

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So she ups to him and bobs a curtsey and said: “Gooden, sir, I hopes as how your good lady and the little one are as well as----”

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**Who acts:** Dame, ups, Gooden, good lady · **What happens:** up, bob, say, hope, be · **To what, where:** fellow, curtsey · **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, ups, Gooden, good lady), 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:pg7439:46:28
# text = So she ups to him and bobs a curtsey and said: “Gooden, sir, I hopes as how your good lady and the little one are as well as----”
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ups	up	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
7	bobs	bob	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	curtsey	curtsey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Gooden	Gooden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	sir	sir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	hopes	hope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **up** |  | Dame |  | fellow |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bob** | present | ups | a curtsey |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curtsey=Patient |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | ups *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | Gooden |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | your good lady and the little one |  |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |

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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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