--- title: He'd much ado to make his living, trudging about with his pack at hi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He'd much ado to make his living, trudging about with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels, and at the close of the day's labour was but too glad to sit down and sleep. Who acts: salmon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salmon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:23:46 # text = He'd much ado to make his living, trudging about with his pack at his back and his dog at his heels, and at the close of the day's labour was but too glad to sit down and sleep. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 ado ado NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 advcl _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 trudging trudge VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 pack pack NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 15 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 heels heel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 close close NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 32 's 's PART POS _ 31 case _ _ 33 labour labour NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 35 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 too too ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 40 down down ADP RP _ 39 compound:prt _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | to-infinitive | | salmon's living | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset living=Product | | 2 | **trudge** | gerund | | | | salmon's back and salmon's dog | | with salmon's pack; at salmon's heels; about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Trajectory | | 3 | **is** | past | | | | the close of the day's labour | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sit down** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sleep** | present | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **live** | | salmon | | | | | | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/47/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/23/)