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title: Well, any number of gentlemen came from all parts of England, with f… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, any number of gentlemen came from all parts of England, with forefingers cut off, and with diamond rings and all kinds of tongues, wild beasts' tongues and foreign tongues. Who acts: number. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 113

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Well, any number of gentlemen came from all parts of England, with forefingers cut off, and with diamond rings and all kinds of tongues, wild beasts' tongues and foreign tongues.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** come, cut off · **To what, where:** parts, forefingers

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (number), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg14241:1514`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:30:113
# text = Well, any number of gentlemen came from all parts of England, with forefingers cut off, and with diamond rings and all kinds of tongues, wild beasts' tongues and foreign tongues.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	forefingers	forefinger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	diamond	diamond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	'	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	appos	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | any number of gentlemen |  |  | all parts of England |  | with forefingers and diamond rings and all kinds of tongues | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from part=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **cut off** | participle |  | forefingers and diamond rings and all kinds of tongues *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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