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title: It mounted to his waist, and Beelzebub still kept on bringing barrel… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It mounted to his waist, and Beelzebub still kept on bringing barrels full. Who acts: water, Beelzebub. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 25

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It mounted to his waist, and Beelzebub still kept on bringing barrels full.

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**Who acts:** water, Beelzebub · **What happens:** mount, keep, bring · **To what, where:** waist, barrels

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Master and His Pupil. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (water, Beelzebub), 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:pg7439:18:25
# text = It mounted to his waist, and Beelzebub still kept on bringing barrels full.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	mounted	mount	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	Beelzebub	Beelzebub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	barrels	barrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past | water |  |  | boy's waist |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to waist=Location |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Beelzebub |  |  |  | still |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bring** | gerund | Beelzebub *not said here* | barrels |  |  |  | full *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent barrel=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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