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description: And now he was become the chiefest man in the country-side; 't was no longer plain Tom, but Mr. Hickathrift, and he was held in due respect I promise you. Who acts: Tom, t, I. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, with its dependency tree and th
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 5, sentence 89

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And now he was become the chiefest man in the country-side; 't was no longer plain Tom, but Mr. Hickathrift, and he was held in due respect I promise you.

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**Who acts:** Tom, t, I · **What happens:** be, hold, promise · **To what, where:** chiefest man, plain Tom, Tom, due respect, you

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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, t, I), 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:pg14241:19:89
# text = And now he was become the chiefest man in the country-side; 't was no longer plain Tom, but Mr. Hickathrift, and he was held in due respect I promise you.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	chiefest	chief	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	t	t	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
18	no	no	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Hickathrift	Hickathrift	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	promise	promise	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tom | the chiefest man in the country side |  |  | now | become *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | t | plain Tom but Hickathrift  Mr. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past · passive |  | Tom |  | due respect |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in respect=Location |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I | due respect *not said here* | you |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=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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