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title: Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Becau… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large. Who acts: wretch, Murder. 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 claus
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 53

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Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large.

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**Who acts:** wretch, Murder · **What happens:** vow, do, hire, pay, charge · **To what, where:** charge, wretch, Had

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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 (wretch, Murder), 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:pg14241:25:53
# text = Yet one of them, more hard of heart, Did vow to do his charge, Because the wretch that hired him Had paid him very large.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	vow	vow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
18	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wretch	wretch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	nsubj	_	_
22	hired	hire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	Had	Had	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	very	very	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Murder's charge |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent charge=Eventuality |
| 3 | **hire** | past | the wretch | wretch |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **pay** | past | the wretch | Had |  |  |  | large *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
| 5 | **charge** |  | Murder |  |  |  |  |  | nom charge «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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