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title: Nor was the Piper unmindful of the little toddling ones, for every f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor was the Piper unmindful of the little toddling ones, for every fifty yards he'd stop and give an extra flourish on his pipe just to give them time to keep up with the older and stronger of the band. Who acts: Nor. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tale
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 34

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Nor was the Piper unmindful of the little toddling ones, for every fifty yards he'd stop and give an extra flourish on his pipe just to give them time to keep up with the older and stronger of the band.

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**Who acts:** Nor · **What happens:** be, toddle, stop, give, keep up · **To what, where:** Piper unmindful, extra flourish, pipe, yards

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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 (Nor), 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:pg14241:15:34
# text = Nor was the Piper unmindful of the little toddling ones, for every fifty yards he'd stop and give an extra flourish on his pipe just to give them time to keep up with the older and stronger of the band.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Piper	Piper	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	unmindful	unmindful	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	toddling	toddle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	yards	yard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
21	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	extra	extra	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	flourish	flourish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	33	xcomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	conj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nor | the Piper unmindful |  |  |  | of the little toddling ones | tree rules |
| 2 | **toddle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stop** | would | Nor |  |  |  |  | for every fifty yards | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **give** | infinitive | Nor *not said here* | a extra flourish |  | Nor's pipe |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent flourish=Theme on pipe=Asset |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | Nor *not said here* |  | yards *= yard* |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 6 | **keep up** | to-infinitive | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | old *property* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=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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