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description: So she up and told him, and he said, "Then I'm a ruined man, for that money was to pay our rent with. Who acts: Hereafterthis, robber, money, our. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 112

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So she up and told him, and he said, "Then I'm a ruined man, for that money was to pay our rent with.

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**Who acts:** Hereafterthis, robber, money, our · **What happens:** tell, say, ruin, be, rent · **To what, where:** robber, ruined man · **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 (Hereafterthis, robber, money, our), 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:pg14241:15:112
# text = So she up and told him, and he said, "Then I'm a ruined man, for that money was to pay our rent with.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
14	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
26	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	rent	rent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Hereafterthis |  | robber |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | robber |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **ruin** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | robber | a ruined man |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | past | that money |  |  |  |  | pay *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **rent** *in a quote* |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom rent «possession transitive»: poss=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:** «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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