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title: The long and the short of it was that Tom killed two of the rogues a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The long and the short of it was that Tom killed two of the rogues and grieviously wounded the other two, and took all their money, which was as much as two hundred pounds. Who acts: long, money. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its de
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 30

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The long and the short of it was that Tom killed two of the rogues and grieviously wounded the other two, and took all their money, which was as much as two hundred pounds.

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**Who acts:** long, money · **What happens:** be, wound, take · **To what, where:** other two, money

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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 (long, money), 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:pg14241:19:30
# text = The long and the short of it was that Tom killed two of the rogues and grieviously wounded the other two, and took all their money, which was as much as two hundred pounds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	rogues	rogue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	grieviously	grieviously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
31	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	acl:relcl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	compound	_	_
35	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	nummod	_	_
36	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the long |  |  |  |  | kill *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wound** | past | the long *not said here* | the other two |  |  |  | grieviously *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus two=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | past | the long *not said here* | rogues's money |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | rogues's money |  |  |  |  | as hundred pounds; much *property* | tree rules |

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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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