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title: You may fancy the townsfolk had been throwing up their caps and hurr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: You may fancy the townsfolk had been throwing up their caps and hurrahing and stopping up rat holes and setting the church bells a-ringing. Who acts: You, townsfolk, hurrahing. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, with its dependency tree and t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 1, sentence 41

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You may fancy the townsfolk had been throwing up their caps and hurrahing and stopping up rat holes and setting the church bells a-ringing.

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**Who acts:** You, townsfolk, hurrahing · **What happens:** fancy, throw up, hurrah, stop up, set, bell · **To what, where:** caps, rat holes, church, ringing

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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 (You, townsfolk, hurrahing), 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:pg14241:15:41
# text = You may fancy the townsfolk had been throwing up their caps and hurrahing and stopping up rat holes and setting the church bells a-ringing.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fancy	fancy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	townsfolk	townsfolk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	aux	_	_
8	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	caps	cap	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	hurrahing	hurrah	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	csubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	stopping	stop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	rat	rat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	setting	set	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	bells	bell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	ringing	ringing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fancy** | may | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **throw up** | past · perfect · progressive | the townsfolk | rats's caps |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cap=Theme |
| 3 | **hurrah** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **stop up** | gerund |  | rat holes |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination |
| 5 | **set** | gerund |  | the church |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient church=Result |
| 6 | **bell** | present | hurrahing | a ringing |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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