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title: And when he read about some pretty young women, he used to go mad to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And when he read about some pretty young women, he used to go mad to see some of them; till one day, when his father was out cutting wood, he told his mother that he wished to go away to look for his living in some other country, and to see some other people besides them two. Who acts: son. A senten
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 3

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And when he read about some pretty young women, he used to go mad to see some of them; till one day, when his father was out cutting wood, he told his mother that he wished to go away to look for his living in some other country, and to see some other people besides them two.

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**Who acts:** son · **What happens:** read, use out, go, see, cut, tell · **To what, where:** some, wood, mother, other people, other country · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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:pg7439:20:3
# text = And when he read about some pretty young women, he used to go mad to see some of them; till one day, when his father was out cutting wood, he told his mother that he wished to go away to look for his living in some other country, and to see some other people besides them two.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
7	pretty	pretty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	mad	mad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	till	till	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	out	out	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
31	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
32	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
36	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	iobj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	ccomp	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
51	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
55	to	to	PART	TO	_	56	mark	_	_
56	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	conj	_	_
57	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	59	det	_	_
58	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	amod	_	_
59	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	obj	_	_
60	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
61	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obl	_	_
62	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	56	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | son |  |  |  |  | about some pretty young women | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about woman=Topic |
| 2 | **use out** | past | son |  |  |  | day |  | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **go** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | mad *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer some=Stimulus |
| 5 | **cut** | gerund | son *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wood=Product |
| 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | son |  | son's mother |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 7 | **wish** | past | son |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 8 | **go away** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **look** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for son's living in some other country | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for living=Theme |
| 10 | **see** | to-infinitive | son *not said here* | some other people |  |  |  | besides father | tree rules |
| 11 | **live** |  | son |  |  | some other country |  |  | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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