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title: Scrapefoot was very much afraid of the Bears, but for all that he wa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Scrapefoot was very much afraid of the Bears, but for all that he wanted very much to know all about them. Who acts: Scrapefoot. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 19

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Scrapefoot was very much afraid of the Bears, but for all that he wanted very much to know all about them.

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**Who acts:** Scrapefoot · **What happens:** be, want, know · **To what, where:** much, all

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scrapefoot), 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:pg14241:23:19
# text = Scrapefoot was very much afraid of the Bears, but for all that he wanted very much to know all about them.
1	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Bears	Bear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	obj	_	_
21	about	about	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  |  |  | of the Bears; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **want** | past | Scrapefoot | much |  |  |  | for that | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot much=Theme |
| 3 | **know** | to-infinitive |  | all |  |  |  | about Bears *= bear* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer all=Stimulus |

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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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