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title: For he never saw Yallery Brown in daylight; only in the darklins he… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: For he never saw Yallery Brown in daylight; only in the darklins he saw him hopping about, like a Will-o-th'-wyke without his lanthorn. Who acts: Tom, darklins. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 86

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For he never saw Yallery Brown in daylight; only in the darklins he saw him hopping about, like a Will-o-th'-wyke without his lanthorn.

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**Who acts:** Tom, darklins · **What happens:** not see, see, hop about · **To what, where:** Yallery Brown, daylight, Tom

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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, darklins), 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:pg14241:17:86
# text = For he never saw Yallery Brown in daylight; only in the darklins he saw him hopping about, like a Will-o-th'-wyke without his lanthorn.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	darklins	darklin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	xcomp	_	_
18	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
20	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
22	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	26	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	th	th	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	wyke	wyke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
30	without	without	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lanthorn	lanthorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past | Tom | Yallery Brown |  | daylight |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer brown=Stimulus |
| 2 | **see** | past | the darklins | Tom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hop about** | gerund | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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