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title: In passionate Sicily a wife disgusted with her husband's pedantry se… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In passionate Sicily a wife disgusted with her husband's pedantry sets the house on fire, and informs her husband of the fact in this unintelligible gibberish; he, not understanding his own lingo, falls a victim to the flames, and she marries the servant who had taken the message. Who acts: wife, hu
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# English Fairy Tales, XLII. Master of All Masters., sentence 11

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In passionate Sicily a wife disgusted with her husband's pedantry sets the house on fire, and informs her husband of the fact in this unintelligible gibberish; he, not understanding his own lingo, falls a victim to the flames, and she marries the servant who had taken the message.

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**Who acts:** wife, husband, servant · **What happens:** disgust, set, inform, not understand, fall, marry · **To what, where:** wife, house, passionate Sicily, husband, unintelligible gibberish, own lingo

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLII. Master of All Masters.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, husband, servant), 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:pg7439:92:11
# text = In passionate Sicily a wife disgusted with her husband's pedantry sets the house on fire, and informs her husband of the fact in this unintelligible gibberish; he, not understanding his own lingo, falls a victim to the flames, and she marries the servant who had taken the message.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	passionate	passionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Sicily	Sicily	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	disgusted	disgust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	pedantry	pedantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	sets	set	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	informs	inform	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	unintelligible	unintelligible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	gibberish	gibberish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	understanding	understand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
35	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	lingo	lingo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	marries	marry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disgust** | participle |  | a wife *not said here* |  |  |  | with wife's husband's pedantry | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **set** | present | a wife | the house |  | passionate Sicily |  | on fire | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme on fire=Destination |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | present | a wife *not said here* |  | wife's husband of the fact | this unintelligible gibberish |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **understand** | gerund | husband | husband's own lingo |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer lingo=Stimulus |
| 5 | **fall** | present | husband *not said here* | a victim |  |  |  | to the flames *result* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient victim=Extent to flame=Result |
| 6 | **marry** | present | wife | the servant |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient |
| 7 | **take** | past · perfect | the servant | the message |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=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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