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title: Well, she thought she'd be sure to guess that's name before the mont… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, she thought she'd be sure to guess that's name before the month was up. Who acts: thing, that. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 53

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Well, she thought she'd be sure to guess that's name before the month was up.

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**Who acts:** thing, that · **What happens:** think, be, guess, name, be up · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, that), 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:pg7439:5:53
# text = Well, she thought she'd be sure to guess that's name before the month was up.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	ccomp	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	before	before	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | thing |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | would | thing |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **guess** | to-infinitive | thing *not said here* |  |  |  | month |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be up** | past | thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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