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title: But the tinker being a nimble fellow, leapt up again, gave Tom a blo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But the tinker being a nimble fellow, leapt up again, gave Tom a blow that made him reel again, and followed his blow with one on the other side that made Tom's neck crack again. Who acts: tinker, blow, Tom, other side. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Ta
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 52

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But the tinker being a nimble fellow, leapt up again, gave Tom a blow that made him reel again, and followed his blow with one on the other side that made Tom's neck crack again.

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**Who acts:** tinker, blow, Tom, other side · **What happens:** be, leapt up, give, make, reel, follow · **To what, where:** nimble fellow, blow, Tom, neck crack

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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, blow, Tom, other side), 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:pg14241:19:52
# text = But the tinker being a nimble fellow, leapt up again, gave Tom a blow that made him reel again, and followed his blow with one on the other side that made Tom's neck crack again.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	nimble	nimble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	leapt	leapt	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
14	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	iobj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	reel	reel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	again	again	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
35	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	's	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	crack	crack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
39	again	again	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | gerund | the tinker | a nimble fellow |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **leapt up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **give** | past |  | a blow | Tom |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient blow=Theme |
| 4 | **make** | past | a blow | Tom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **reel** | infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **follow** | past |  | Tom's blow |  |  |  | with one on the other side | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 7 | **make** | past | the other side | Tom's neck crack |  |  | again |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset crack=Product |
| 8 | **blow** |  | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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