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title: This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength, scrambled out, beat the crier, and told him to say. Who acts: This, folk. 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 76

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This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength, scrambled out, beat the crier, and told him to say.

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**Who acts:** This, folk · **What happens:** vex, use, scramble out, beat, tell, say · **To what, where:** one, strength, crier, folk · **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 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, folk), 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:pg14241:32:76
# text = This vexed one of the folk so sorely that he used all his strength, scrambled out, beat the crier, and told him to say.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	vexed	vex	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	scrambled	scramble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	beat	beat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crier	crier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vex** | past | This | one of the folk |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus one=Experiencer |
| 2 | **use** | past | folk | folk's strength |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient |
| 3 | **scramble out** | participle |  | folk's strength *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beat** | infinitive | folk *not said here* | the crier |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location crier=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | This *not said here* |  | folk |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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