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title: "If that be so," said Johnny Gloke, as he sprang, bold as a lion, fr… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "If that be so," said Johnny Gloke, as he sprang, bold as a lion, from his hiding-place, "What do you say to Johnny Gloke with his old roosty sword?" Who acts: that, Johnny, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, with its dependency tree and
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 134

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"If that be so," said Johnny Gloke, as he sprang, bold as a lion, from his hiding-place, "What do you say to Johnny Gloke with his old roosty sword?"

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**Who acts:** that, Johnny, you · **What happens:** be, say, spring · **To what, where:** hiding place · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, Johnny, you), 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:pg14241:21:134
# text = "If that be so," said Johnny Gloke, as he sprang, bold as a lion, from his hiding-place, "What do you say to Johnny Gloke with his old roosty sword?"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
10	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bold	bold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
23	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	obj	_	_
29	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
34	Gloke	Gloke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
37	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	roosty	roosty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	_
39	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | infinitive | that |  |  |  |  | so *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Johnny |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spring** | past | Johnny |  |  | Johnny's hiding place |  | bold *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from place=Trajectory |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you | Johnny's hiding place |  |  |  | with Johnny's old roosty sword | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme johnny=Manner |

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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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