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title: But he soon came along after them and was just like to catch 'em up… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But he soon came along after them and was just like to catch 'em up when the giant's daughter called out to Nix Nought Nothing, “Take my hair dagger and throw it down, quick, quick.” Who acts: sweetheart, daughter. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing, with its de
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# English Fairy Tales, Nix Nought Nothing, sentence 47

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But he soon came along after them and was just like to catch 'em up when the giant's daughter called out to Nix Nought Nothing, “Take my hair dagger and throw it down, quick, quick.”

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**Who acts:** sweetheart, daughter · **What happens:** come along, be, catch up, call out, take, throw down · **To what, where:** 'em, Nothing, hair dagger, dagger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Nix Nought Nothing. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sweetheart, daughter), 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:pg7439:12:47
# text = But he soon came along after them and was just like to catch 'em up when the giant's daughter called out to Nix Nought Nothing, “Take my hair dagger and throw it down, quick, quick.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	like	like	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	'em	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	's	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Nix	Nix	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	Nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	26	compound	_	_
26	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	throw	throw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	down	down	ADP	RP	_	34	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	quick	quick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come along** | past | sweetheart |  |  |  | after steps *= step* | along, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | sweetheart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **catch up** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sweetheart *not said here* | 'em *= they* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | the giant's daughter |  | Nothing |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to nothing=Recipient |
| 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | my hair dagger |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dagger=Theme |
| 6 | **throw down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | dagger |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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