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title: Everybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Everybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized on their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his back at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a bunch of tallow-dips. Who acts: Everybody, Mount. A sentence of «English F
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# English Fairy Tales, Jack the Giant-killer, sentence 6

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Everybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized on their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his back at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a bunch of tallow-dips.

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**Who acts:** Everybody, Mount · **What happens:** run, seize, make, carry, tie, approach · **To what, where:** houses, nothing, half, back

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack the Giant-killer. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, Mount), 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:pg7439:22:6
# text = Everybody at his approach ran out of their houses, while he seized on their cattle, making nothing of carrying half-a-dozen oxen on his back at a time; and as for their sheep and hogs, he would tie them round his waist like a bunch of tallow-dips.
1	Everybody	everybody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	5	nsubj	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	approach	approach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	_
20	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	dozen	dozen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
31	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
36	as	as	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	hogs	hog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
43	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
44	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	tie	tie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
46	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	obj	_	_
47	round	round	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
49	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bunch	bunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
54	tallow	tallow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	dips	dip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | Everybody |  |  | feet's houses |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out house=Trajectory |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Mount |  |  |  |  | on feet's cattle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | Mount *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nothing=Product |
| 4 | **carry** | gerund |  | half and a dozen oxen |  | Mount's back | time |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme |
| 5 | **tie** | would | Mount | half |  |  |  | round Mount's waist; like a bunch of tallow dips | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 6 | **approach** |  | Mount |  |  |  |  |  | nom approach «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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