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title: Thus resolved, he took the near road, flinging open the gates for hi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus resolved, he took the near road, flinging open the gates for his cart and horses to go through. 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 59

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Thus resolved, he took the near road, flinging open the gates for his cart and horses to go through.

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**Who acts:** Tom · **What happens:** resolve, take, fling, open, go through · **To what, where:** near road, gates

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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:pg14241:19:59
# text = Thus resolved, he took the near road, flinging open the gates for his cart and horses to go through.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	flinging	fling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	open	open	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cart	cart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	through	through	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | participle | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **take** | past | Tom | the near road |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme |
| 3 | **fling** | gerund | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **open** | infinitive | Tom *not said here* | the gates |  |  |  | for Tom's cart and horses | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme |
| 5 | **go through** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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