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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 13

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Well they did, and there was a fair stand-up fight, but in the end the rats were too many, and the pussies were regularly driven from the field.

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**Who acts:** people, fair up fight, rats · **What happens:** do, be, drive · **To what, where:** end, pussies, field

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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 (people, fair up fight, rats), 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:pg14241:15:13
# text = Well they did, and there was a fair stand-up fight, but in the end the rats were too many, and the pussies were regularly driven from the field.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
9	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
10	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	up	up	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rats	rat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	pussies	pussy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
29	regularly	regularly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | people |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | past | a fair up fight |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the rats |  |  |  | in the end | many *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drive** | past · passive |  | the pussies |  | the field |  | regularly *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme from field=Trajectory |

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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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