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title: But all the others were fit to kill him, and cried out: "Pooh, pooh,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But all the others were fit to kill him, and cried out: "Pooh, pooh, turn that boy out, it can't be him." Who acts: others, eye. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 120

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But all the others were fit to kill him, and cried out: "Pooh, pooh, turn that boy out, it can't be him."

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**Who acts:** others, eye · **What happens:** be, kill, cry out, pooh, turn out, not be · **To what, where:** boy · **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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, eye), 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:pg14241:30:120
# text = But all the others were fit to kill him, and cried out: "Pooh, pooh, turn that boy out, it can't be him."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Pooh	pooh	INTJ	UH	_	18	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	pooh	pooh	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	turn	turn	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
26	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
28	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | all others |  |  |  |  | fit *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **kill** | to-infinitive | all others *not said here* | boy |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **cry out** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pooh** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **turn out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that boy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **is a** *in a quote* | can | eye | boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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