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title: And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess. Who acts: name, impet, that. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 79

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And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.

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**Who acts:** name, impet, that · **What happens:** get, begin, look, twirl, be, give · **To what, where:** end, tail, guess

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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 (name, impet, 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:pg7439:5:79
# text = And as it got towards the end of the month, the impet began to look so maliceful, and that twirled that's tail faster and faster each time she gave a guess.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	impet	impet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	maliceful	maliceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	twirled	twirl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	22	advmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	conj	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl:unmarked	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	guess	guess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | name |  |  |  | towards the end of the month |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme towards end=Destination |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the impet |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **look** | to-infinitive | the impet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | maliceful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **twirl** | past | that |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present |  | that tail |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **give** | past | impet | a guess |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guess=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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