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title: He thought that he'd do his own work after all, so that Yallery Brow… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He thought that he'd do his own work after all, so that Yallery Brown would leave him and his neighbours alone. Who acts: Tom, Yallery. 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 91

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He thought that he'd do his own work after all, so that Yallery Brown would leave him and his neighbours alone.

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**Who acts:** Tom, Yallery · **What happens:** think, do, leave, work · **To what, where:** own work, 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, Yallery), 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:pg14241:17:91
# text = He thought that he'd do his own work after all, so that Yallery Brown would leave him and his neighbours alone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	'd	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	18	mark	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	fixed	_	_
15	Yallery	Yallery	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	Brown	Brown	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **do** | would | Tom | Tom's own work |  |  | after all |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 3 | **leave** | would | Yallery | Tom |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **work** |  | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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