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title: When hither as he drew the tripping Rear (Dreadful to think and diff… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When hither as he drew the tripping Rear (Dreadful to think and difficult to swear!) Who acts: Tradition. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLIV. the Pied Piper, sentence 16

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When hither as he drew the tripping Rear (Dreadful to think and difficult to swear!)

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**Who acts:** Tradition · **What happens:** draw, think, swear · **To what, where:** tripping

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLIV. the Pied Piper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tradition), 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:pg14241:35:16
# text = When hither as he drew the tripping Rear (Dreadful to think and difficult to swear!)
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tripping	tripping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	Rear	rear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
9	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	swear	swear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Tradition | the tripping |  |  |  | hither, rear *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tripping=Theme |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Tradition *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **swear** | to-infinitive | Tradition *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «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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