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title: Well, still the fine gentlemen came, bringing up their dragons' tong… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Well, still the fine gentlemen came, bringing up their dragons' tongues that weren't dragons' tongues, and at last the little boy came up, dressed a little better. Who acts: fine gentlemen, tongues, last. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, w
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 117

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Well, still the fine gentlemen came, bringing up their dragons' tongues that weren't dragons' tongues, and at last the little boy came up, dressed a little better.

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**Who acts:** fine gentlemen, tongues, last · **What happens:** come, bring up, not be, come up, dress · **To what, where:** tongues

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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 (fine gentlemen, tongues, last), 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:pg14241:30:117
# text = Well, still the fine gentlemen came, bringing up their dragons' tongues that weren't dragons' tongues, and at last the little boy came up, dressed a little better.
1	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	'	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
18	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	'	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	tongues	tongue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
28	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	up	up	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	dressed	dress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	_
34	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the fine gentlemen |  |  |  | still |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bring up** | gerund | the fine gentlemen *not said here* | signs's dragons's tongues |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tongue=Patient |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | signs's dragons's tongues | dragons's tongues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come up** | past | last |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **dress** | participle | last *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «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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