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title: Now this twig was as thick as some mileposts are, but Tom was not da… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now this twig was as thick as some mileposts are, but Tom was not daunted for all that, though the giant made at him with such force that the wheel cracked again. Who acts: twig, wheel. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency t
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 73

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Now this twig was as thick as some mileposts are, but Tom was not daunted for all that, though the giant made at him with such force that the wheel cracked again.

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**Who acts:** twig, wheel · **What happens:** be, not daunt, make, crack · **To what, where:** Tom, giant, such force

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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 (twig, wheel), 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:pg14241:19:73
# text = Now this twig was as thick as some mileposts are, but Tom was not daunted for all that, though the giant made at him with such force that the wheel cracked again.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	twig	twig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	as	as	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	thick	thick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	mileposts	milepost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	daunted	daunt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	wheel	wheel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	cracked	crack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	again	again	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this twig |  |  |  | now | as some mileposts; thick *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **daunt** | past · passive |  | Tom |  |  |  | for that | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  | the giant *not said here* |  |  |  | at twig; with such force | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **crack** | past | the wheel | such force *not said here* |  |  | again |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location force=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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