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title: His one son he called by his own name, Thomas Hickathrift, and he pu… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: His one son he called by his own name, Thomas Hickathrift, and he put him to good learning, but the lad was none of the wisest, and indeed seemed to be somewhat soft, so he got no good at all from his teaching. Who acts: one son, son, lad, man. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jaco
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 102

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His one son he called by his own name, Thomas Hickathrift, and he put him to good learning, but the lad was none of the wisest, and indeed seemed to be somewhat soft, so he got no good at all from his teaching.

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**Who acts:** one son, son, lad, man · **What happens:** call, put, be, seem, get, name · **To what, where:** man, good · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one son, son, lad, man), 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:pg14241:18:102
# text = His one son he called by his own name, Thomas Hickathrift, and he put him to good learning, but the lad was none of the wisest, and indeed seemed to be somewhat soft, so he got no good at all from his teaching.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
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	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Thomas	Thomas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	learning	learning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wisest	wise	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	cop	_	_
36	somewhat	somewhat	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
43	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	obj	_	_
44	at	at	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	43	obl	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	teaching	teaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* | past | man's one son |  |  |  |  | by man's own name | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past | son |  | man |  |  | to good learning | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal |
| 3 | **is** | past | the lad |  |  |  |  | wise *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | soft, somewhat *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **get** | past | man | no good |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus |
| 7 | **name** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **teach** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom teaching «act transitive»: 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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