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title: "And--and--" says he, and comes to a stop--"I reckon we'll tackle bu… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "And--and--" says he, and comes to a stop--"I reckon we'll tackle business now, having done the polite like. Who acts: I, we, polite like. 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 clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 13

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"And--and--" says he, and comes to a stop--"I reckon we'll tackle business now, having done the polite like.

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**Who acts:** I, we, polite like · **What happens:** say, come, reckon, tackle, have, do · **To what, where:** M'appen, stop, business, polite like · **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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, we, polite like), 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:pg14241:26:13
# text = "And--and--" says he, and comes to a stop--"I reckon we'll tackle business now, having done the polite like.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
7	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stop	stop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	reckon	reckon	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	tackle	tackle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	ccomp	_	_
22	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	polite	polite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	like	like	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  | M'appen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present |  |  |  | a stop |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to stop=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **reckon** *in a quote* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **tackle** *in a quote* | future | we | business |  |  | now |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent business=Theme |
| 5 | **have** *in a quote* | gerund | we *not said here* | the polite like |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** *in a quote* | participle | the polite like *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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