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title: The bird took it in one foot, the shoes in the other, and, after hav… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The bird took it in one foot, the shoes in the other, and, after having repeated the song, flew away to where three millers were picking a millstone. Who acts: bird, three millers. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# English Fairy Tales, The Rose-tree, sentence 42

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The bird took it in one foot, the shoes in the other, and, after having repeated the song, flew away to where three millers were picking a millstone.

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**Who acts:** bird, three millers · **What happens:** take, repeat, fly away, pick · **To what, where:** jeweller, one foot, song, millstone

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Rose-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, three millers), 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:pg7439:8:42
# text = The bird took it in one foot, the shoes in the other, and, after having repeated the song, flew away to where three millers were picking a millstone.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux	_	_
19	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	30	advmod	_	_
27	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	millers	miller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	picking	pick	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	millstone	millstone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the bird | jeweller |  | one foot and the shoes in the other |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Value in foot=Location |
| 2 | **repeat** | gerund · perfect | the bird *not said here* | the song |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Eventuality |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | the bird *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pick** | past · progressive | three millers | a millstone |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent millstone=Patient |

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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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