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description: The tinker had a leathern coat on, and at every blow Tom gave the tinker his coat roared again, yet the tinker did not give way one inch. Who acts: tinker, Tom, coat. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 49

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The tinker had a leathern coat on, and at every blow Tom gave the tinker his coat roared again, yet the tinker did not give way one inch.

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**Who acts:** tinker, Tom, coat · **What happens:** have on, give, roar, not give · **To what, where:** leathern coat, tinker, blow, way

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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 (tinker, Tom, coat), 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:pg14241:19:49
# text = The tinker had a leathern coat on, and at every blow Tom gave the tinker his coat roared again, yet the tinker did not give way one inch.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	leathern	leathern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	coat	coat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	roared	roar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	again	again	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
27	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have on** | past | the tinker | a leathern coat |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Patient |
| 2 | **give** | past | Tom | the tinker |  | every blow |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent tinker=Theme at blow=Asset |
| 3 | **roar** | past | Tom's coat | the tinker *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tinker=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **give** | past · do-support | the tinker | way |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent way=Recipient inch=Theme |

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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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