--- title: At last Tom, seeing them unable to lift it, "Stand away, you fools,"… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: At last Tom, seeing them unable to lift it, "Stand away, you fools," said he, and taking the tree, set it on one end and laid it in the cart. " Who acts: last Tom, besides. 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" **Who acts:** last Tom, besides · **What happens:** see, lift, stand away, say, take, set · **To what, where:** besides, tree, last Tom, one end, cart · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (last Tom, besides), 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:pg14241:19:13 # text = At last Tom, seeing them unable to lift it, "Stand away, you fools," said he, and taking the tree, set it on one end and laid it in the cart. " 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 unable unable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 xcomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 Stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 14 away away ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 17 fools fool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 20 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ _ 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | last Tom *not said here* | besides *= beside* | | | | unable *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | | 2 | **lift** | to-infinitive | besides *= beside* *not said here* | tree | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **stand away** *in a quote* | infinitive | besides *= beside* *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | last Tom | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **take** | gerund | | the tree | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | | 6 | **set** | infinitive | | tree | | | on one end | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme on end=Destination | | 7 | **lay** | past | | tree | | the cart | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in cart=Destination | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/14/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/)