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title: Sad and desolate he found his folk: the lands untilled, the farms de… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Sad and desolate he found his folk: the lands untilled, the farms deserted, half the trees of the park uprooted, for none would stay to tend the nine kye that the monster needed for his food each day. Who acts: Childe, farms, none, monster. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 122

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Sad and desolate he found his folk: the lands untilled, the farms deserted, half the trees of the park uprooted, for none would stay to tend the nine kye that the monster needed for his food each day.

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**Who acts:** Childe, farms, none, monster · **What happens:** desolate, find, until, desert, uproot, stay · **To what, where:** folk, lands, trees, nine kye

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Childe, farms, none, monster), 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:pg14241:32:122
# text = Sad and desolate he found his folk: the lands untilled, the farms deserted, half the trees of the park uprooted, for none would stay to tend the nine kye that the monster needed for his food each day.
1	Sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
11	untilled	until	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	deserted	desert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	park	park	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	uprooted	uproot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	28	nsubj	_	_
27	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	tend	tend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	kye	kye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	needed	need	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	det	_	_
42	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **desolate** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **find** | past | Childe | Childe's folk and the lands |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent folk=Topic |
| 3 | **until** | participle |  | the lands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **desert** | past | the farms | half trees of the park |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme tree=Source |
| 5 | **uproot** | participle |  | half trees of the park *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **stay** | would | none |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **tend** | to-infinitive | none *not said here* | the nine kye |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kye=Theme |
| 8 | **need** | past | the monster | the nine kye *not said here* |  |  | day | for Childe's food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot kye=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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