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title: So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very d… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadful beasts, with two heads, and on every head four horns. Who acts: young man, man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 16

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So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadful beasts, with two heads, and on every head four horns.

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**Who acts:** young man, man · **What happens:** go on, see · **To what, where:** head horns, multitude

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man, man), 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:pg7439:26:16
# text = So the young man went on, and by-and-by he saw a multitude of very dreadful beasts, with two heads, and on every head four horns.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	very	very	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go on** | past | the young man | head horns |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | man | a multitude of dreadful beasts |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer multitude=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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