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title: And he was a young man of sense, and seeing the water running out, h… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And he was a young man of sense, and seeing the water running out, he took some clay and patched up the holes, so that he brought home enough water to bake a large cake. Who acts: water, young man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Red Ettin, with its dependency tree and the 
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# English Fairy Tales, The Red Ettin, sentence 36

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And he was a young man of sense, and seeing the water running out, he took some clay and patched up the holes, so that he brought home enough water to bake a large cake.

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**Who acts:** water, young man · **What happens:** be, see, run out, take, patch up, bring · **To what, where:** young man, water, clay, holes, enough water, large cake

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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 (water, young 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:pg7439:26:36
# text = And he was a young man of sense, and seeing the water running out, he took some clay and patched up the holes, so that he brought home enough water to bake a large cake.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sense	sense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
20	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	patched	patch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	holes	hole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
31	home	home	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	bake	bake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	advcl	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | water | a young man |  |  |  | of sense | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | a young man *not said here* | the water |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus |
| 3 | **run out** | gerund | a young man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | a young man | some clay |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Theme |
| 5 | **patch up** | past | a young man *not said here* | the holes |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent hole=Destination |
| 6 | **bring** | past | water | enough water |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 7 | **bake** | to-infinitive | water *not said here* | a large cake |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Product |

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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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