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title: "What!" said the landlord, and swore; "thou 'st drunk all my liquor… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "What!" said the landlord, and swore; "thou 'st drunk all my liquor and haven't got nought to pay for it with!" Who acts: thou, nought. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 92

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"What!" said the landlord, and swore; "thou 'st drunk all my liquor and haven't got nought to pay for it with!"

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**Who acts:** thou, nought · **What happens:** say, swear, drink, not get, pay · **To what, where:** landlord, liquor, nought · **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 (thou, nought), 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:pg14241:22:92
# text = "What!" said the landlord, and swore; "thou 'st drunk all my liquor and haven't got nought to pay for it with!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj:outer	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	landlord	landlord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	swore	swear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	16	nsubj	_	_
14	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	st	St	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	drunk	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	det:predet	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	liquor	liquor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
24	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past |  | the landlord |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent landlord=Topic |
| 2 | **swear** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drink** *in a quote* | past | thou | my liquor |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent liquor=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | thou *not said here* | nought |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **pay** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | nought *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for liquor | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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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