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title: Now the old man had a little dog named Turpie; and one night the Hob… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the old man had a little dog named Turpie; and one night the Hobyahs came and said, "Hobyah! Who acts: old man, Hobyahs. 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 66

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Now the old man had a little dog named Turpie; and one night the Hobyahs came and said, "Hobyah!

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**Who acts:** old man, Hobyahs · **What happens:** have, name, come, say · **To what, where:** little dog, Hobyah · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old man, Hobyahs), 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:pg14241:25:66
# text = Now the old man had a little dog named Turpie; and one night the Hobyahs came and said, "Hobyah!
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	Turpie	Turpie	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Hobyahs	Hobyahs	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Hobyah	Hobyah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the old man | a little dog |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a little dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the Hobyahs |  |  |  | night |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Hobyahs *not said here* | Hobyah |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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