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title: He had marked out a huge old oak, which, thought he, would furnish m… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He had marked out a huge old oak, which, thought he, would furnish many and many a good plank. Who acts: bread. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 26

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He had marked out a huge old oak, which, thought he, would furnish many and many a good plank.

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**Who acts:** bread · **What happens:** mark out, think, furnish · **To what, where:** huge old oak, many good plank

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bread), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:876`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:24:26
# text = He had marked out a huge old oak, which, thought he, would furnish many and many a good plank.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	marked	mark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
15	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	furnish	furnish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark out** | past · perfect | bread | a huge old oak |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent oak=Destination |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **furnish** | would |  | a many good plank |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plank=Recipient |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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