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title: And all the day the girl sat trying to think of names to say to it w… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And all the day the girl sat trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night. Who acts: girl, name. 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 77

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And all the day the girl sat trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.

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**Who acts:** girl, name · **What happens:** sit, try, think, say, come · **To what, where:** name · **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 (girl, name), 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:pg7439:5:77
# text = And all the day the girl sat trying to think of names to say to it when it came at night.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | the girl |  |  |  | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **try** | gerund | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of names | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive |  |  | name |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to it=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | past | name |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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