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title: But he found it so hard and uncomfortable that it made his bones ach… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he found it so hard and uncomfortable that it made his bones ache, and he jumped down at once and got into the middling chair, and he turned round and round in it, but he couldn't make himself comfortable. Who acts: Scrapefoot, nose, bones. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jaco
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 26

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But he found it so hard and uncomfortable that it made his bones ache, and he jumped down at once and got into the middling chair, and he turned round and round in it, but he couldn't make himself comfortable.

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**Who acts:** Scrapefoot, nose, bones · **What happens:** find, make, ache, jump down, get, turn · **To what, where:** nose, middling chair, Scrapefoot

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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, nose, bones), 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:pg14241:23:26
# text = But he found it so hard and uncomfortable that it made his bones ache, and he jumped down at once and got into the middling chair, and he turned round and round in it, but he couldn't make himself comfortable.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	ache	ache	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	down	down	ADV	RB	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	middling	middling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
32	round	round	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	round	round	ADV	RB	_	32	conj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
40	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	_
42	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
43	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	42	obj	_	_
44	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Scrapefoot | nose |  |  |  | hard *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | past | nose |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ache** | present | Scrapefoot's bones |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **jump down** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory |
| 5 | **get** | past | Scrapefoot *not said here* |  |  | the middling chair |  |  | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into chair=Destination |
| 6 | **turn** | past | Scrapefoot |  |  | nose |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory |
| 7 | **not** **make** | could | Scrapefoot | Scrapefoot |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Product |

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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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