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title: And so it went on day after day, all the work done by Yallery Brown,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it went on day after day, all the work done by Yallery Brown, and better done, too, than he could have done it himself. Who acts: work, Tom. 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 84

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And so it went on day after day, all the work done by Yallery Brown, and better done, too, than he could have done it himself.

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**Who acts:** work, Tom · **What happens:** go, do · **To what, where:** work

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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 (work, Tom), 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:pg14241:17:84
# text = And so it went on day after day, all the work done by Yallery Brown, and better done, too, than he could have done it himself.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	done	done	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
26	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
28	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | work | all work |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | participle |  | all work *not said here* |  |  |  | by Yallery Brown | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** | could · perfect | Tom | work |  |  |  | Tom *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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