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title: When Mr. Miacca got Tommy inside, he pulled him out of the bag and s… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When Mr. Miacca got Tommy inside, he pulled him out of the bag and set him down, and felt his arms and legs. Who acts: 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 4

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When Mr. Miacca got Tommy inside, he pulled him out of the bag and set him down, and felt his arms and legs.

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**Who acts:** Mr. · **What happens:** get, pull, set down, feel · **To what, where:** Tommy, bag, Mr., arms

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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 (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:pg7439:36:4
# text = When Mr. Miacca got Tommy inside, he pulled him out of the bag and set him down, and felt his arms and legs.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Miacca	Miacca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	Tommy	Tommy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	down	down	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | Mr. | Tommy |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tommy=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pull** | past | Mr. | Tommy |  | the bag |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out bag=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **set down** | infinitive | Mr. *not said here* | Mr. |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=Result |
| 4 | **feel** | past | Mr. *not said here* | Mr.'s arms and legs |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |

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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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