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title: Here a young spendthrift of Bagdad is warned in a dream to repair to… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Here a young spendthrift of Bagdad is warned in a dream to repair to Cairo, with the usual result of being referred back. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham, sentence 14

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Here a young spendthrift of Bagdad is warned in a dream to repair to Cairo, with the usual result of being referred back.

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**What happens:** warn, repair, refer back · **To what, where:** young spendthrift, dream, Cairo, usual result · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, LXIII. the Pedlar of Swaffham. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg14241:54:14
# text = Here a young spendthrift of Bagdad is warned in a dream to repair to Cairo, with the usual result of being referred back.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spendthrift	spendthrift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	repair	repair	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Cairo	Cairo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	referred	refer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | present · passive |  | a young spendthrift of Bagdad |  | a dream; here |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **repair** | to-infinitive |  |  | Cairo |  |  | with the usual result | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with result=Instrument |
| 3 | **refer back** | gerund · passive |  | the usual result *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme» |

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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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