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description: They did so, and he went to the side of the bridge, unloosened the mouth of the sack, and shook all his meal out into the river. Who acts: fools, sound. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 39

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They did so, and he went to the side of the bridge, unloosened the mouth of the sack, and shook all his meal out into the river.

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**Who acts:** fools, sound · **What happens:** do, go, unloosen, shake · **To what, where:** side, mouth, meal, river

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fools, sound), 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:pg14241:33:39
# text = They did so, and he went to the side of the bridge, unloosened the mouth of the sack, and shook all his meal out into the river.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	unloosened	unloosen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	out	out	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | fools *= fool* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go** | past | sound |  |  | the side of the bridge |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to side=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **unloosen** | past | sound *not said here* | the mouth of the sack |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shake** | past | fools *= fool* *not said here* | sound's meal |  | the river |  | out *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meal=Theme into river=Destination |

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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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