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title: And when he came home he made his old mother laugh with the story of… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he came home he made his old mother laugh with the story of how he served the football players and the four thieves. Who acts: Tom, old mother. 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 c
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 31

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And when he came home he made his old mother laugh with the story of how he served the football players and the four thieves.

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**Who acts:** Tom, old mother · **What happens:** come, make, laugh, serve · **To what, where:** football players

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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, old mother), 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:pg14241:19:31
# text = And when he came home he made his old mother laugh with the story of how he served the football players and the four thieves.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	laugh	laugh	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	football	football	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	players	player	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **make** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | infinitive | Tom's old mother |  |  |  |  | with the story | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **serve** | past | Tom | the football players and the four thieves |  |  |  |  | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent player=Attribute |

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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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