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title: Johnny Gloke was a tailor by trade, but like a man of spirit he grew… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Johnny Gloke was a tailor by trade, but like a man of spirit he grew tired of his tailoring, and wished to follow some other path that would lead to honour and fame. Who acts: Johnny, other path. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its de
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 106

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Johnny Gloke was a tailor by trade, but like a man of spirit he grew tired of his tailoring, and wished to follow some other path that would lead to honour and fame.

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**Who acts:** Johnny, other path · **What happens:** be, grow, wish, follow, lead, tailor · **To what, where:** tailor, other path

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Johnny, other path), 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:pg14241:21:106
# text = Johnny Gloke was a tailor by trade, but like a man of spirit he grew tired of his tailoring, and wished to follow some other path that would lead to honour and fame.
1	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	tailor	tailor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	trade	trade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	tailoring	tailoring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	28	det	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Johnny | a tailor |  |  |  | by trade | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | past | Johnny |  |  |  |  | like a man of spirit; tired *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | past | Johnny *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 4 | **follow** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Johnny *not said here* | some other path |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme |
| 5 | **lead** | would | some other path |  |  |  |  | to honour and fame | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to honour=Patient |
| 6 | **tailor** |  | Johnny |  |  |  |  |  | nom tailoring «act 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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