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title: The father left his little son, As plainly did appear, When he to pe… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The father left his little son, As plainly did appear, When he to perfect age should come, Three hundred pounds a year; Who acts: father. 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 36

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The father left his little son, As plainly did appear, When he to perfect age should come, Three hundred pounds a year;

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**Who acts:** father · **What happens:** leave, appear, come · **To what, where:** little son, hundred pounds

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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 (father), 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:pg14241:25:36
# text = The father left his little son, As plainly did appear, When he to perfect age should come, Three hundred pounds a year;
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	appear	appear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
16	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	pounds	pound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | the father | father's little son |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 2 | **appear** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | plainly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | should | father | hundred pounds  a year |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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