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title: But when he went to the work, there was none to do! all was done alr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But when he went to the work, there was none to do! all was done already, the horses seen to, the stables cleaned out, everything in its proper place, and he'd nothing to do but sit with his hands in his pockets. Who acts: Tom, stables. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 83

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But when he went to the work, there was none to do! all was done already, the horses seen to, the stables cleaned out, everything in its proper place, and he'd nothing to do but sit with his hands in his pockets.

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**Who acts:** Tom, stables · **What happens:** go, do, see to, clean out, sit · **To what, where:** work, all, horses, pockets

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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, stables), 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:pg14241:17:83
# text = But when he went to the work, there was none to do! all was done already, the horses seen to, the stables cleaned out, everything in its proper place, and he'd nothing to do but sit with his hands in his pockets.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
18	already	already	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	stables	stable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	11	conj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
33	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	'd	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
39	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	38	obj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	acl	_	_
42	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	conj	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	38	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Tom |  |  | the work |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to work=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  | the horses *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 4 | **see to** | participle |  | the horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **clean out** | past | the stables | the horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 6 | **do** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **sit** | infinitive |  |  |  | Tom's pockets |  | with Tom's hands | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in pocket=Location |

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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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