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title: This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fa… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch. Who acts: This, God, two labourers. 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 72

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This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch.

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**Who acts:** This, God, two labourers · **What happens:** do, jog, come, fall · **To what, where:** two labourers, ditch

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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 (This, God, two labourers), 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:pg14241:32:72
# text = This he did, jogging along, till he came to two labourers who had fallen into a ditch.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	jogging	jog	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	along	along	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	labourers	labourer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ditch	ditch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | This |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **jog** | gerund | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | God |  |  | two labourers |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to labourer=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **fall** | past · perfect | two labourers |  |  |  |  | into a ditch *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result |

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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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