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title: Now the robber was dressed like a fine gentleman, so she thought to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the robber was dressed like a fine gentleman, so she thought to herself it was very kind of so fine a man to come for the bag of groats, so she ran upstairs and fetched the bag of groats, and gave it to the robber and he went away with it. Who acts: fine gentleman, Hereafterthis, bag, robber. A 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 109

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Now the robber was dressed like a fine gentleman, so she thought to herself it was very kind of so fine a man to come for the bag of groats, so she ran upstairs and fetched the bag of groats, and gave it to the robber and he went away with it.

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**Who acts:** fine gentleman, Hereafterthis, bag, robber · **What happens:** dress, think, be, come, run, fetch · **To what, where:** robber, Hereafterthis, bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fine gentleman, Hereafterthis, bag, robber), 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:pg14241:15:109
# text = Now the robber was dressed like a fine gentleman, so she thought to herself it was very kind of so fine a man to come for the bag of groats, so she ran upstairs and fetched the bag of groats, and gave it to the robber and he went away with it.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obl	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	very	very	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	ccomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	obl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	groats	groat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
36	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	fetched	fetch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	groats	groat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	robber	robber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	conj	_	_
53	away	away	ADV	RB	_	52	advmod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dress** | past · passive | a fine gentleman | the robber |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Hereafterthis |  | Hereafterthis |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | bag |  |  |  |  | kind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | bag *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **come** | to-infinitive | bag *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the bag of groats | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **run** | past | Hereafterthis |  |  |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **fetch** | past | Hereafterthis *not said here* | the bag of groats |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme |
| 8 | **give** | past | a fine gentleman *not said here* | bag | the robber |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to robber=Recipient |
| 9 | **go away** | past | robber |  |  |  |  | with bag; away *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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