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title: Well, when that heard her, that gave an awful shriek and away that f… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, when that heard her, that gave an awful shriek and away that flew into the dark, and she never saw it any more. Who acts: that, she. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, “nimmy Nimmy Not, Your Name's Tom Tit Tot!”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, “nimmy Nimmy Not, Your Name's Tom Tit Tot!”, sentence 1

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Well, when that heard her, that gave an awful shriek and away that flew into the dark, and she never saw it any more.

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**Who acts:** that, she · **What happens:** hear, give, fly, not see · **To what, where:** her, awful shriek, dark, shriek

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, “nimmy Nimmy Not, Your Name's 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 (that, she), 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:pg7439:6:1
# text = Well, when that heard her, that gave an awful shriek and away that flew into the dark, and she never saw it any more.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
16	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	any	any	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | that | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 2 | **give** | past | that | a awful shriek |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shriek=Theme |
| 3 | **fly** | past | that |  |  |  |  | into the dark *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into dark=Result |
| 4 | **not** **see** | past | she | shriek |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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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