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title: Now the master had a pupil who was but a foolish lad, and he acted a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
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# English Fairy Tales, The Master and His Pupil, sentence 5

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Now the master had a pupil who was but a foolish lad, and he acted as servant to the great master, but never was he suffered to look into the black book, hardly to enter the private room.

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**Who acts:** master · **What happens:** have, act, not suffer, look, enter · **To what, where:** pupil, master, private room

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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 (master), 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:pg7439:18:5
# text = Now the master had a pupil who was but a foolish lad, and he acted as servant to the great master, but never was he suffered to look into the black book, hardly to enter the private room.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pupil	pupil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	acted	act	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux:pass	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	book	book	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	private	private	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the master | a pupil but a foolish lad |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Patient |
| 2 | **act** | past | master |  |  |  |  | as servant; to the great master | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as servant=Attribute |
| 3 | **not** **suffer** | past · passive |  | master |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | into the black book | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into book=Theme |
| 5 | **enter** | to-infinitive |  | the private room |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |

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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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