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title: He had gold on his cap, gold on his finger, gold on his neck, a red… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had gold on his cap, gold on his finger, gold on his neck, a red gold watch-chain--eh! but he had brass. Who acts: man. 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 130

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He had gold on his cap, gold on his finger, gold on his neck, a red gold watch-chain--eh! but he had brass.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** gol, have · **To what, where:** cap, brass

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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 (man), 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:pg14241:15:130
# text = He had gold on his cap, gold on his finger, gold on his neck, a red gold watch-chain--eh! but he had brass.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	gold	gol	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	finger	finger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
20	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
21	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	eh	eh	INTJ	UH	_	23	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
30	brass	brass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gol** | past · perfect | man |  |  | man's cap on man's finger and gold and gold on man's neck |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | man | brass |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brass=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:** «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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