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title: When the pedlar heard this he spoke no word, but was exceeding glad… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the pedlar heard this he spoke no word, but was exceeding glad in himself, and returning home speedily, digged underneath the great oak-tree, and found a prodigious great treasure. Who acts: pedlar, returning. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 9, sentence 68

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When the pedlar heard this he spoke no word, but was exceeding glad in himself, and returning home speedily, digged underneath the great oak-tree, and found a prodigious great treasure.

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**Who acts:** pedlar, returning · **What happens:** hear, speak, exceed, return, digg, find · **To what, where:** this, word, prodigious great treasure · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pedlar, returning), 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:pg14241:23:68
# text = When the pedlar heard this he spoke no word, but was exceeding glad in himself, and returning home speedily, digged underneath the great oak-tree, and found a prodigious great treasure.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
8	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	9	det	_	_
9	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	csubj:pass	_	_
20	home	home	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	speedily	speedily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	digged	digg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	underneath	underneath	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the pedlar | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | Pedlar | no word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exceed** | past · progressive | the pedlar *not said here* |  |  |  |  | glad *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | home, speedily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **digg** | participle | returning |  |  |  |  | underneath the great oak tree | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | past | the pedlar *not said here* | a prodigious great treasure |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic |

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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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