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title: Tom couldn't speak yet, but he thought; "Lord! for sure 't is a bogl… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom couldn't speak yet, but he thought; "Lord! for sure 't is a bogle!" Who acts: Tom, Lord t. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 62

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Tom couldn't speak yet, but he thought; "Lord! for sure 't is a bogle!"

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**Who acts:** Tom, Lord t · **What happens:** not speak, think, be · **To what, where:** bogle · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, Lord t), 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:pg14241:17:62
# text = Tom couldn't speak yet, but he thought; "Lord! for sure 't is a bogle!"
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bogle	bogle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **speak** *speech: other* | could | Tom |  |  |  | yet |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Lord t | a bogle |  |  |  |  | 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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