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title: Dang it! thou 'rt the biggest fool I ever saw, and it's I'll help _t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Dang it! thou 'rt the biggest fool I ever saw, and it's I'll help _thee_ first--out o' this!" Who acts: you, I, Coat. 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 96

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Dang it! thou 'rt the biggest fool I ever saw, and it's I'll help \_thee\_ first--out o' this!"

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**Who acts:** you, I, Coat · **What happens:** dang, see, be · **To what, where:** Coat, biggest fool

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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 (you, I, Coat), 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:pg14241:22:96
# text = Dang it! thou 'rt the biggest fool I ever saw, and it's I'll help _thee_ first--out o' this!"
1	Dang	dang	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	obj	_	_
5	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	rt	Rt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	12	advmod	_	_
12	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
20	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	19	punct	_	_
23	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	out	out	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
26	o	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	_
28	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dang** | imperative | you *not said here* | Coat |  |  |  | rt *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | I | the biggest fool *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fool=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | present | Coat |  |  |  |  | of this; first, help *property* | tree rules |

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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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