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title: The gentleman now makes a large hunting party, and invites all the g… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The gentleman now makes a large hunting party, and invites all the gentlemen around the country to it, and to see the castle as well. Who acts: gentleman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 38

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The gentleman now makes a large hunting party, and invites all the gentlemen around the country to it, and to see the castle as well.

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**Who acts:** gentleman · **What happens:** make, invite, see · **To what, where:** large hunting party, gentlemen, country, castle

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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 (gentleman), 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:pg7439:20:38
# text = The gentleman now makes a large hunting party, and invites all the gentlemen around the country to it, and to see the castle as well.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	invites	invite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	23	advmod	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the gentleman | a large hunting party |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent party=Product |
| 2 | **invite** | present | the gentleman *not said here* | all gentlemen | country | the country |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gentleman=Recipient |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | the gentleman *not said here* | the castle |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer castle=Stimulus |

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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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