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title: But when the frog said the words over again, she went and took an ax… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the frog said the words over again, she went and took an axe and chopped off its head, and lo! and behold, there stood before her a handsome young prince, who told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked magician, and he could never be unspelled till some girl would do his bidding for a 
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# English Fairy Tales, The Well of the World's End, sentence 45

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But when the frog said the words over again, she went and took an axe and chopped off its head, and lo! and behold, there stood before her a handsome young prince, who told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked magician, and he could never be unspelled till some girl would do his bidding for a whole night, and chop off his head at the end of it.

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**Who acts:** frog, girl, handsome young prince, wicked magician, End · **What happens:** say, go, take, chop off, stand, tell · **To what, where:** words, chop, end, axe, head, handsome young prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Well of the World's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frog, girl, handsome young prince, wicked magician), 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:pg7439:47:45
# text = But when the frog said the words over again, she went and took an axe and chopped off its head, and lo! and behold, there stood before her a handsome young prince, who told her that he had been enchanted by a wicked magician, and he could never be unspelled till some girl would do his bidding for a whole night, and chop off his head at the end of it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	over	over	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	off	off	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
24	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	30	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
29	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	30	expl	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
31	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	39	nsubj	_	_
39	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	iobj	_	_
41	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	ccomp	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
52	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
53	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
54	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
55	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux:pass	_	_
56	unspelled	unspell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	parataxis	_	_
57	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
58	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	59	det	_	_
59	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
60	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	61	aux	_	_
61	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	advcl	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	bidding	bidding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obj	_	_
64	for	for	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
65	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	67	det	_	_
66	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	67	amod	_	_
67	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	70	punct	_	_
69	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	70	cc	_	_
70	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
71	off	off	ADP	IN	_	73	case	_	_
72	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	73	nmod:poss	_	_
73	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nmod	_	_
74	at	at	ADP	IN	_	76	case	_	_
75	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	76	det	_	_
76	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
77	of	of	ADP	IN	_	78	case	_	_
78	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	76	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
79	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | the frog | the words |  |  | again |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | past | girl | chop off End's head |  |  | at the end of head |  | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at end=Location |
| 3 | **take** | past | girl *not said here* | a axe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme |
| 4 | **chop off** | past | girl *not said here* | axe's head |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 5 | **stand** | past | girl *not said here* | a handsome young prince |  | there | before girl |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | a handsome young prince |  | girl |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **enchant** | past · perfect · passive | a wicked magician | End |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 8 | **not** **unspell** | could · passive |  | End |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **do** | would | some girl | End's bidding |  |  | night |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bidding=Eventuality |
| 10 | **bid** |  | End |  |  |  |  |  | nom bidding «communication transitive»: poss=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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