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title: A gentleman of good account, In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in ho… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A gentleman of good account, In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour far surmount Most men of his estate. Who acts: gentleman. 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 32

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A gentleman of good account, In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour far surmount Most men of his estate.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** dwell, do, surmount · **To what, where:** Norfolk, Most men, honour

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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 (gentleman), 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:pg14241:25:32
# text = A gentleman of good account, In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour far surmount Most men of his estate.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Norfolk	Norfolk	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
18	surmount	surmount	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	Most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	20	amod	_	_
20	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	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	estate	estate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | a gentleman of good account *not said here* |  |  | Norfolk |  | of late | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in norfolk=Location |
| 2 | **do** | past | a gentleman of good account |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **surmount** | present |  | Most men of man's estate |  | honour |  | far *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Co-Theme |

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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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