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title: Presently, when he sat up and looked down at himself, he found that… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently, when he sat up and looked down at himself, he found that the dust had caked into a sort of skin over his wet clothes till you could not see an inch of them, they were so well covered. " Who acts: rt, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales,
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 57

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Presently, when he sat up and looked down at himself, he found that the dust had caked into a sort of skin over his wet clothes till you could not see an inch of them, they were so well covered. "

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**Who acts:** rt, you · **What happens:** sit up, look down, find, cake, not see, cover · **To what, where:** dust, sort, inch, clothes, skin · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rt, 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:pg14241:22:57
# text = Presently, when he sat up and looked down at himself, he found that the dust had caked into a sort of skin over his wet clothes till you could not see an inch of them, they were so well covered. "
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	caked	cake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	19	obl	_	_
29	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
31	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
40	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux:pass	_	_
41	so	so	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
42	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	43	advmod	_	_
43	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
45	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit up** | past | rt |  |  |  |  | presently *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **look down** | past | rt *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at rt | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at himself=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past | rt |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **cake** | past · perfect · passive |  | the dust |  | a sort of skin |  | over rt's wet clothes | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **see** | could | you | a inch of clothes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer inch=Stimulus |
| 6 | **cover** | past · passive |  | clothes |  |  |  | well *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
| 7 | **sort** |  |  | skin |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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