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title: And at cudgels, wrestling, or throwing the hammer, not a man could s… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And at cudgels, wrestling, or throwing the hammer, not a man could stand against him, so that at last none durst go into the ring to wrestle with him, and his fame was spread more and more in the country. Who acts: cudgels, man. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 18

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And at cudgels, wrestling, or throwing the hammer, not a man could stand against him, so that at last none durst go into the ring to wrestle with him, and his fame was spread more and more in the country.

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**Who acts:** cudgels, man · **What happens:** throw, not stand, go, wrestle, spread · **To what, where:** hammer, last none durst, fame, country

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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 (cudgels, man), 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:pg14241:19:18
# text = And at cudgels, wrestling, or throwing the hammer, not a man could stand against him, so that at last none durst go into the ring to wrestle with him, and his fame was spread more and more in the country.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	cudgels	cudgel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	wrestling	wrestling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	hammer	hammer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	parataxis	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	25	compound	_	_
25	durst	durst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	wrestle	wrestle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
40	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	conj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund | cudgels and wrestling *not said here* | the hammer |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | could | a man |  |  |  |  | against Tom; so that | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against he=Location |
| 3 | **go** | infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  | last none durst |  | into the ring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into ring=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **wrestle** | to-infinitive | a man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Tom | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **spread** | past · passive |  | Tom's fame |  | the country |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in country=Destination |

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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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