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title: On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vineg… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vinegar" (No. vi.). Who acts: aid. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, XLV. Hereafterthis, sentence 13

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On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vinegar" (No. vi.).

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**Who acts:** aid · **What happens:** mind, disperse, see · **To what, where:** door, robbers, Vinegar

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XLV. Hereafterthis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (aid), 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:pg14241:36:13
# text = On minding the door and dispersing robbers by its aid see "Mr. Vinegar" (No. vi.).
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	minding	mind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	dispersing	disperse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	robbers	robber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:desc	_	_
14	Vinegar	Vinegar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
16	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	No.	No.	PROPN	NNP	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	vi	vi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	17	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mind** | gerund |  | the door |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Theme |
| 2 | **disperse** | gerund |  | robbers |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent robber=Patient |
| 3 | **see** | infinitive | door's aid | Vinegar  Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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