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title: So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's dau… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me. Who acts: gentleman, people, that. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies, with its dependency tree and the p
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# English Fairy Tales, The Three Sillies, sentence 52

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So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.

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**Who acts:** gentleman, people, that · **What happens:** turn back, marry, not live, be, do · **To what, where:** daughter, nothing

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Three Sillies. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gentleman, people, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7439:244`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7439:7:52
# text = So the gentleman turned back home again and married the farmer's daughter, and if they didn't live happy for ever after, that's nothing to do with you or me.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	's	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
21	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	20	obl	_	_
24	after	after	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	nsubj	_	_
27	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	4	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	conj	_	_
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn back** | past | the gentleman |  |  |  | again | home *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **marry** | past | the gentleman *not said here* | the farmer's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **live** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · do-support | people |  |  |  |  | after, happy *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | present | that | nothing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | the gentleman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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