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title: So he hummed and ha'ad and at last, "Come, my good man," said he, "y… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So he hummed and ha'ad and at last, "Come, my good man," said he, "you see what poor folk we are; how can we manage to pay you fifty pounds? Who acts: council, you, we. 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 47

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So he hummed and ha'ad and at last, "Come, my good man," said he, "you see what poor folk we are; how can we manage to pay you fifty pounds?

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**Who acts:** council, you, we · **What happens:** hum, come, say, see, be, manage · **To what, where:** last, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (council, you, we), 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:pg14241:15:47
# text = So he hummed and ha'ad and at last, "Come, my good man," said he, "you see what poor folk we are; how can we manage to pay you fifty pounds?
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hummed	hum	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	ha'ad	ha'ad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
25	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	dislocated	_	_
27	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
30	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	33	advmod	_	_
31	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	manage	manage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hum** | past | council |  |  |  |  |  | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | council *not said here* |  |  | last |  | my good man *vocative* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | council |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **manage** *in a quote* | can | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **pay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | we *not said here* |  | you |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient pound=Asset |

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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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