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title: And in a voyage to Portugal Two of his sons did die; And to conclude… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And in a voyage to Portugal Two of his sons did die; And to conclude, himself was brought To want and misery: He pawned and mortgaged all his land Ere seven years came about. Who acts: conscience. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, with its 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 11, sentence 60

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And in a voyage to Portugal Two of his sons did die; And to conclude, himself was brought To want and misery: He pawned and mortgaged all his land Ere seven years came about.

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**Who acts:** conscience · **What happens:** die, conclude, bring, want, pawn, mortgage · **To what, where:** conscience, misery, land

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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 (conscience), 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:pg14241:25:60
# text = And in a voyage to Portugal Two of his sons did die; And to conclude, himself was brought To want and misery: He pawned and mortgaged all his land Ere seven years came about.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	die	die	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	conclude	conclude	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	parataxis	_	_
21	To	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	want	want	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	misery	misery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
26	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	pawned	pawn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mortgaged	mortgage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
35	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl:unmarked	_	_
36	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
37	about	about	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  | of Portugal's sons; in a voyage to Portugal | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in voyage=Attribute |
| 2 | **conclude** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** | past · passive |  | conscience |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **want** | to-infinitive |  | misery |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot misery=Theme |
| 5 | **pawn** | past | conscience |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **mortgage** | past | conscience *not said here* | conscience's land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **come about** | past | conscience *not said here* |  |  |  | year | about *property* | 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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