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title: So Tom flung down his weapon and yielded the tinker the better on it… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tom flung down his weapon and yielded the tinker the better on it, took him home to his house, where they nursed their bruises and from that day forth there was no stauncher pair of friends than they two. Who acts: Tom, horses, stauncher pair. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Ja
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 53

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So Tom flung down his weapon and yielded the tinker the better on it, took him home to his house, where they nursed their bruises and from that day forth there was no stauncher pair of friends than they two.

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**Who acts:** Tom, horses, stauncher pair · **What happens:** fling down, yield, take, nurse, be, bruise · **To what, where:** weapon, tinker, house, bruises

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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, horses, stauncher pair), 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:pg14241:19:53
# text = So Tom flung down his weapon and yielded the tinker the better on it, took him home to his house, where they nursed their bruises and from that day forth there was no stauncher pair of friends than they two.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	yielded	yield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tinker	tinker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	home	home	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	bruises	bruise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
33	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	34	expl	_	_
34	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	37	det	_	_
36	stauncher	staunch	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	pair	pair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nmod	_	_
40	than	than	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fling down** | past | Tom | Tom's weapon |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Theme |
| 2 | **yield** | past | Tom *not said here* | the tinker |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent tinker=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | Tom *not said here* | tinker |  | Tom's house |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to house=Destination |
| 4 | **nurse** | past | horses *= horse* | horses's bruises and that day |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruise=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **be** | past | no stauncher pair of friends than two |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bruise** |  | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bruise «state transitive»: 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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