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title: "Hout no," says he, "jist ordinary brains--fit for any fool--same as… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Hout no," says he, "jist ordinary brains--fit for any fool--same as every one has about here; something clean common-like." Who acts: schoolmaster, one. 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
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 16

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"Hout no," says he, "jist ordinary brains--fit for any fool--same as every one has about here; something clean common-like."

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**Who acts:** schoolmaster, one · **What happens:** hout, say, brain, have · **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 (schoolmaster, one), 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:pg14241:26:16
# text = "Hout no," says he, "jist ordinary brains--fit for any fool--same as every one has about here; something clean common-like."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Hout	hout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
3	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	jist	jist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
11	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	brains	brain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	about	about	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
27	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	6	ccomp	_	_
28	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
29	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hout** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **brain** *in a quote* |  | schoolmaster |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | every one |  |  | here |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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