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title: As he came to a bridge, like the Creek Road one yonder, he leaned on… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As he came to a bridge, like the Creek Road one yonder, he leaned on the parapet thinking of his trouble, and that perhaps it would be foolish to run away from home, but he could not tell which to do; when he saw a girl washing her clothes on the bank below. Who acts: father, parapet, it, girl. A se
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 6, sentence 32

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As he came to a bridge, like the Creek Road one yonder, he leaned on the parapet thinking of his trouble, and that perhaps it would be foolish to run away from home, but he could not tell which to do; when he saw a girl washing her clothes on the bank below.

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**Who acts:** father, parapet, it, girl · **What happens:** come, learn, think, be, run away, not tell · **To what, where:** bridge, parapet, home, girl, clothes, bank · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, parapet, it, girl), 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:pg14241:20:32
# text = As he came to a bridge, like the Creek Road one yonder, he leaned on the parapet thinking of his trouble, and that perhaps it would be foolish to run away from home, but he could not tell which to do; when he saw a girl washing her clothes on the bank below.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Creek	Creek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Road	Road	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	conj	_	_
13	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	parapet	parapet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	cop	_	_
31	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	run	run	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
43	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	45	nsubj	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	49	advmod	_	_
48	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
49	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	_
53	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	52	obj	_	_
55	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
58	below	below	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | father |  |  | a bridge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bridge=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **learn** | past | father |  |  | the parapet |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the parapet *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of father's trouble | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would | it |  |  |  |  | foolish, perhaps *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **run away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | home |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory |
| 6 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | could | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **see** | past | father | a girl |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer girl=Stimulus |
| 9 | **wash** | gerund | a girl *not said here* | girl's clothes |  | the bank |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 10 | **trouble** |  | father |  |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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