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title: Dame Goody took the babe, which was as fine a baby boy as you'd wish… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dame Goody took the babe, which was as fine a baby boy as you'd wish to see. Who acts: Dame, babe, you. 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 7

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Dame Goody took the babe, which was as fine a baby boy as you'd wish to see.

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**Who acts:** Dame, babe, you · **What happens:** take, be, wish, see · **To what, where:** babe, baby boy

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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, babe, you), 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:pg7439:46:7
# text = Dame Goody took the babe, which was as fine a baby boy as you'd wish to see.
1	Dame	Dame	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Goody	Goody	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	baby	baby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Dame | the babe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the babe |  |  |  |  | fine *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wish** | would | you | a baby boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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