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title: There was one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate going u… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: There was one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate going up to the palace, and did try to stop Jack from going in. Who acts: one, front gate. 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 51

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There was one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate going up to the palace, and did try to stop Jack from going in.

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**Who acts:** one, front gate · **What happens:** be, go up, try, stop, go in · **To what, where:** Jack

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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 (one, front gate), 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:pg7439:20:51
# text = There was one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate going up to the palace, and did try to stop Jack from going in.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	sentry	sentry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	front	front	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	try	try	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	Jack	Jack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
27	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | one of the little mice on sentry at the front gate |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go up** | gerund | the front gate *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the palace | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **try** | past · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **stop** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Jack |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality jack=Eventuality |
| 5 | **go in** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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