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title: The countryman bade him welcome, and his wife, who was a very good-h… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The countryman bade him welcome, and his wife, who was a very good-hearted woman, soon brought him some milk in a wooden bowl, and some coarse brown bread on a platter. Who acts: magician, wife, some. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 3

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The countryman bade him welcome, and his wife, who was a very good-hearted woman, soon brought him some milk in a wooden bowl, and some coarse brown bread on a platter.

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**Who acts:** magician, wife, some · **What happens:** welcome, be, bring, bread · **To what, where:** countryman bade, good hearted woman, milk, magician, wooden bowl, platter

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician, wife, some), 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:pg7439:28:3
# text = The countryman bade him welcome, and his wife, who was a very good-hearted woman, soon brought him some milk in a wooden bowl, and some coarse brown bread on a platter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	countryman	countryman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	welcome	welcome	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bowl	bowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	nsubj	_	_
32	coarse	coarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	platter	platter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **welcome** | present | magician | the countryman bade |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | magician's wife and a good hearted woman | a good hearted woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bring** | past | magician's wife and a good hearted woman | some milk | magician | a wooden bowl |  | soon *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination milk=Theme |
| 4 | **bread** |  | some |  |  | a platter |  |  | tree rules |

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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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