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title: Now Tom had got more strength than ever, being well kept as he was a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Tom had got more strength than ever, being well kept as he was and drinking so much strong ale as he did. Who acts: Tom. 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 57

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Now Tom had got more strength than ever, being well kept as he was and drinking so much strong ale as he did.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** get, keep, drink, do · **To what, where:** more strength, strong ale

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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), 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:pg14241:19:57
# text = Now Tom had got more strength than ever, being well kept as he was and drinking so much strong ale as he did.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ale	ale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past · perfect | Tom | more strength |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer strength=Stimulus |
| 2 | **keep** | gerund · passive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **drink** | past · progressive | Tom | strong ale |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ale=Patient |
| 4 | **do** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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