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title: So Tommy put out a leg, and Mr. Miacca got a chopper, and chopped it… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: So Tommy put out a leg, and Mr. Miacca got a chopper, and chopped it off, and pops it in the pot. Who acts: Tommy, Mr.. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Mr. Miacca, sentence 30

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So Tommy put out a leg, and Mr. Miacca got a chopper, and chopped it off, and pops it in the pot.

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**Who acts:** Tommy, Mr. · **What happens:** put out, get, chop off, pop · **To what, where:** leg, chopper, pot

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mr. Miacca. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tommy, Mr.), 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:pg7439:36:30
# text = So Tommy put out a leg, and Mr. Miacca got a chopper, and chopped it off, and pops it in the pot.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	leg	leg	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	chopper	chopper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	chopped	chop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	pops	pop	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past | Tommy | a leg |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent leg=Goal |
| 2 | **get** | past | Mr. | a chopper |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chopper=Stimulus |
| 3 | **chop off** | past | Tommy *not said here* | chopper |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **pop** | present | Tommy *not said here* | chopper |  | the pot |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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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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