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title: The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a field where a hind was sowing wheat: Who acts: youngster, hind. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 46

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The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a field where a hind was sowing wheat:

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**Who acts:** youngster, hind · **What happens:** stride, utter, reach, sow · **To what, where:** words, field, wheat

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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 (youngster, hind), 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:pg14241:32:46
# text = The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a field where a hind was sowing wheat:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	along	along	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	uttering	utter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hind	hind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sowing	sow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past | the youngster |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **utter** *speech: other* | gerund | the youngster *not said here* | this words |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic |
| 3 | **reach** | past | youngster | a field |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 4 | **sow** | past · progressive | a hind | wheat |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheat=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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