---
title: And so it was, the men fell to disputing which had suffered the most… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And so it was, the men fell to disputing which had suffered the most by her, and when the master came up all would be heard at once and none listened to him, and it came to blows all round, and the first they knew they had shoved one another into the pond. Who acts: virtue, girl, master, none. A sen
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/64/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/) / 64

# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 64

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And so it was, the men fell to disputing which had suffered the most by her, and when the master came up all would be heard at once and none listened to him, and it came to blows all round, and the first they knew they had shoved one another into the pond.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** virtue, girl, master, none, first, blows · **What happens:** be, dispute, suffer, come up, hear, listen · **To what, where:** man, blows, one, pond · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (virtue, girl, master, none), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg14241:18:64
# text = And so it was, the men fell to disputing which had suffered the most by her, and when the master came up all would be heard at once and none listened to him, and it came to blows all round, and the first they knew they had shoved one another into the pond.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	disputing	dispute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
20	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	23	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	advmod	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux:pass	_	_
28	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	28	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	33	nsubj	_	_
33	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	_
42	all	all	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	round	round	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	49	nsubj	_	_
48	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
50	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	shoved	shove	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	ccomp	_	_
53	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	obj	_	_
54	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	53	fixed	_	_
55	into	into	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | virtue |  |  |  |  | fall *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dispute** | gerund | virtue *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **suffer** | past · perfect · passive | girl |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **come up** | past | the master |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | would · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus» |
| 6 | **listen** | past | none |  | man |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
| 7 | **come** | past | virtue |  |  | blows |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **know** | past | the first |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 9 | **shove** | past · perfect | blows *= blow* | one |  | the pond |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme into pond=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/63/)
- next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/65/)
- ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/)