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title: And one day a woodman desired his help to bring home a tree. — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And one day a woodman desired his help to bring home a tree. Who acts: woodman. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 11

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And one day a woodman desired his help to bring home a tree.

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**Who acts:** woodman · **What happens:** desire, bring, help · **To what, where:** help, tree

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woodman), 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:pg14241:19:11
# text = And one day a woodman desired his help to bring home a tree.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	woodman	woodman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	desired	desire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	home	home	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desire** | past | a woodman | woodman's help |  |  | day |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot help=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | to-infinitive | a woodman *not said here* | a tree |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
| 3 | **help** |  | woodman |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «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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