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title: And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to door and window, and many a blessing they called down upon his head. Who acts: Nor, townsfolk, door. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 36

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And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to door and window, and many a blessing they called down upon his head.

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**Who acts:** Nor, townsfolk, door · **What happens:** pace, flock, call down · **To what, where:** door, many blessing

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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, townsfolk, door), 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:pg14241:15:36
# text = And as he paced along, slowly and gravely, the townsfolk flocked to door and window, and many a blessing they called down upon his head.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	gravely	gravely	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	townsfolk	townsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	blessing	blessing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	down	down	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pace** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  | along, slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flock** | past | the townsfolk | door and window |  |  |  | a many blessing *obl* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 3 | **call down** *speech: assert* | past | door | a many blessing *not said here* |  |  |  | upon Nor's head; down *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient |

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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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