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title: Though the wagoner was so charitable as to let him walk up by the si… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Though the wagoner was so charitable as to let him walk up by the side of the wagon for nothing, he took care not to know him when he came to town, and the poor boy was, in a little time, so cold and hungry that he wished himself in a good kitchen and by a warm fire in the country. Who acts: wagoner
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 4

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Though the wagoner was so charitable as to let him walk up by the side of the wagon for nothing, he took care not to know him when he came to town, and the poor boy was, in a little time, so cold and hungry that he wished himself in a good kitchen and by a warm fire in the country.

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**Who acts:** wagoner, poor boy · **What happens:** be, let, walk up, take, care, not know · **To what, where:** wagoner, town, good kitchen

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wagoner, poor boy), 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:pg503:29:4
# text = Though the wagoner was so charitable as to let him walk up by the side of the wagon for nothing, he took care not to know him when he came to town, and the poor boy was, in a little time, so cold and hungry that he wished himself in a good kitchen and by a warm fire in the country.
1	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	wagoner	wagoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	charitable	charitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wagon	wagon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	care	care	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
43	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	so	so	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	parataxis	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
51	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
53	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	52	obj	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
59	by	by	ADP	IN	_	62	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
61	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	62	amod	_	_
62	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
63	in	in	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	65	det	_	_
65	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the wagoner |  |  |  |  | charitable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **let** | to-infinitive | the wagoner *not said here* | wagoner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk up** | infinitive | wagoner *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the side of the wagon for nothing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
| 4 | **take** | past | wagoner |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 5 | **care** | infinitive | wagoner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **not** **know** | to-infinitive | wagoner *not said here* | wagoner |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 7 | **come** | past | wagoner |  |  | town |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **is** | past | the poor boy |  |  |  | in a little time |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **wish** | past | wagoner | wagoner |  | a good kitchen and a warm fire in the country |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=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:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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