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title: So the man sat down and helped himself, and ate some o' this dish an… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the man sat down and helped himself, and ate some o' this dish and some o' that, and enjoyed himself finely. Who acts: man. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 18

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So the man sat down and helped himself, and ate some o' this dish and some o' that, and enjoyed himself finely.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** sit down, help, eat, enjoy · **To what, where:** man, o

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg14241:25:18
# text = So the man sat down and helped himself, and ate some o' this dish and some o' that, and enjoyed himself finely.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	helped	help	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ate	eat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	o	o	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	enjoyed	enjoy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	24	obj	_	_
26	finely	finely	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit down** | past | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **help** | past | the man *not said here* | man |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **eat** | past | the man *not said here* | some o |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **enjoy** | past | the man *not said here* | man |  |  |  | finely *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=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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