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title: Tom now saw that he had more strength than twenty men, and began to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Tom now saw that he had more strength than twenty men, and began to be very merry, taking delight in company, in going to fairs and meetings, in seeing sports and pastimes. Who acts: Tom. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 17

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Tom now saw that he had more strength than twenty men, and began to be very merry, taking delight in company, in going to fairs and meetings, in seeing sports and pastimes.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** see, have, begin, be, take, go · **To what, where:** more strength, delight, company, fairs, sports · **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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom), 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:pg14241:19:17
# text = Tom now saw that he had more strength than twenty men, and began to be very merry, taking delight in company, in going to fairs and meetings, in seeing sports and pastimes.
1	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
21	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fairs	fair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	meetings	meeting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
34	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	pastimes	pastime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Tom |  |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **have** | past | Tom | more strength |  |  |  | than twenty men | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | merry *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **take** | gerund | Tom *not said here* | delight |  | company |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent delight=Value in company=Location |
| 6 | **go** | gerund | Tom *not said here* |  |  | fairs and meetings |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to fair=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **see** | gerund | Tom *not said here* | sports and pastimes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sport=Stimulus |

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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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