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title: So off he went, and when he came to the farmer's, master and men wer… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So off he went, and when he came to the farmer's, master and men were all a-trashing in the barn. Who acts: man, men. 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 clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 4

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So off he went, and when he came to the farmer's, master and men were all a-trashing in the barn.

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**Who acts:** man, men · **What happens:** go, come, trash · **To what, where:** farmer, barn

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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 (man, men), 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:pg14241:19:4
# text = So off he went, and when he came to the farmer's, master and men were all a-trashing in the barn.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	off	off	ADP	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
19	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	trashing	trash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | man |  |  |  |  | to the farmer and master | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to farmer=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **trash** | past · progressive | men | the farmer and master *not said here* |  | the barn |  |  | 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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