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title: But at last he arrived at his home again, To his dear little foxes,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But at last he arrived at his home again, To his dear little foxes, eight, nine, ten, Says he "You're in luck, here's a fine fat duck With his legs all dangling down-o!" Who acts: man, fine fat duck. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with i
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 65

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But at last he arrived at his home again, To his dear little foxes, eight, nine, ten, Says he "You're in luck, here's a fine fat duck With his legs all dangling down-o!"

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**Who acts:** man, fine fat duck · **What happens:** arrive, say, be, dangle · **To what, where:** last, luck, fine fat duck · **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 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, fine fat duck), 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:pg14241:31:65
# text = But at last he arrived at his home again, To his dear little foxes, eight, nine, ten, Says he "You're in luck, here's a fine fat duck With his legs all dangling down-o!"
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	To	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	foxes	fox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	're	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
35	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	duck	duck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	parataxis	_	_
37	With	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	all	all	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
41	dangling	dangle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	acl	_	_
42	down	down	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	o	o	NOUN	NN	_	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | man |  |  | last | again | at man's home | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | man |  |  | luck |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | a fine fat duck |  | here |  | with man's legs | tree rules |
| 5 | **dangle** *in a quote* | gerund | a fine fat duck *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down o; all *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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