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title: And well was he that could run to see the cave; all the folk made bo… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And well was he that could run to see the cave; all the folk made bonfires for joy, and if Tom was respected before, he was much more so now. Who acts: Tom, folk. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 85

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And well was he that could run to see the cave; all the folk made bonfires for joy, and if Tom was respected before, he was much more so now.

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**Who acts:** Tom, folk · **What happens:** be, see, make, respect · **To what, where:** cave, bonfires, Tom

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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, folk), 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:pg14241:19:85
# text = And well was he that could run to see the cave; all the folk made bonfires for joy, and if Tom was respected before, he was much more so now.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
17	bonfires	bonfire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	respected	respect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	before	before	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	much	much	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | could · past | Tom |  |  |  | now | run, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Tom *not said here* | the cave |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cave=Stimulus |
| 3 | **make** | past | all folk | bonfires |  |  |  | for joy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bonfire=Product for joy=Asset |
| 4 | **respect** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | Tom |  |  |  | before *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **is** | past | Tom |  |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |

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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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