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title: When they opened the fish in order to cook it, every one was astonis… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When they opened the fish in order to cook it, every one was astonished at finding such a little boy, and Tom was quite delighted at being free again. Who acts: shoes, one, Tom. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The History of Tom Thumb, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# English Fairy Tales, The History of Tom Thumb, sentence 37

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When they opened the fish in order to cook it, every one was astonished at finding such a little boy, and Tom was quite delighted at being free again.

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**Who acts:** shoes, one, Tom · **What happens:** open, cook, be, find · **To what, where:** fish, order, little boy

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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 (shoes, one, Tom), 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:pg7439:28:37
# text = When they opened the fish in order to cook it, every one was astonished at finding such a little boy, and Tom was quite delighted at being free again.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
16	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
26	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	cop	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obl	_	_
31	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | shoes *= shoe* | the fish |  | order |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in order=Location |
| 2 | **cook** | to-infinitive | shoes *= shoe* *not said here* | fish |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | every one |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | every one *not said here* | such little boy |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Topic |
| 5 | **is** | past | Tom |  |  |  | again | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | free *property* | 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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