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title: Just as he thought to have a bit of sleep, round and over and under… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Just as he thought to have a bit of sleep, round and over and under him they came, but he never stirred an inch all night. Who acts: Jack, mountains. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 124

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Just as he thought to have a bit of sleep, round and over and under him they came, but he never stirred an inch all night.

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**Who acts:** Jack, mountains · **What happens:** think, have, come, not stir · **To what, where:** bit, inch

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, mountains), 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:pg14241:26:124
# text = Just as he thought to have a bit of sleep, round and over and under him they came, but he never stirred an inch all night.
1	Just	just	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	over	over	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	stirred	stir	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	inch	inch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Jack |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | to-infinitive | Jack *not said here* | a bit of sleep |  |  |  | round *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | under Jack | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under he=Location |
| 4 | **not** **stir** | past | Jack | a inch |  |  | night |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus inch=Experiencer |

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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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