--- title: But how am I to know the house?" said I. "Ho, 't is easy enough," sa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But how am I to know the house?" said I. "Ho, 't is easy enough," said they, "for 't is a brick house, built entirely of flints, standing alone by itself in the middle of sixty or seventy others just like it." Who acts: I, I., t. 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"Ho, 't is easy enough," said they, "for 't is a brick house, built entirely of flints, standing alone by itself in the middle of sixty or seventy others just like it." **Who acts:** I, I., t · **What happens:** know, say, be, build, stand · **To what, where:** house, brick house, middle · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (I, I., t), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:18:77 # text = But how am I to know the house?" said I. "Ho, 't is easy enough," said they, "for 't is a brick house, built entirely of flints, standing alone by itself in the middle of sixty or seventy others just like it." 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 3 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 know know VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 I. I. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Ho Ho PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 easy easy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 parataxis _ _ 20 enough enough ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 " " PUNCT '' _ 19 punct _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 28 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 t t NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 brick brick NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 compound _ _ 33 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 36 entirely entirely ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 flints flint NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 41 alone alone ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 40 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 sixty sixty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 51 nummod _ _ 49 or or CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 seventy seventy NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 48 conj _ _ 51 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nmod _ _ 52 just just ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 53 like like ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **know** | present | I | the house | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I. and Ho | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** | present | t | | | | | easy, enough *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | I. and Ho *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **is a** | present | t | a brick house | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **build** | participle | | a brick house *not said here* | | | | of flints | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 7 | **stand** | gerund | | | | the middle of sixty others | | by house; like house; alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by itself=Location | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/78/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/18/)