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title: After this he found himself as badly off as before; and being almost… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: After this he found himself as badly off as before; and being almost starved again, he laid himself down at the door of Mr. Fitzwarren, a rich merchant. Who acts: Dick. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 17

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After this he found himself as badly off as before; and being almost starved again, he laid himself down at the door of Mr. Fitzwarren, a rich merchant.

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**Who acts:** Dick · **What happens:** find, starve, lay down · **To what, where:** Dick, door

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dick), 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:pg7439:37:17
# text = After this he found himself as badly off as before; and being almost starved again, he laid himself down at the door of Mr. Fitzwarren, a rich merchant.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
8	off	off	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	before	before	ADV	RB	_	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	19	obj	_	_
21	down	down	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:desc	_	_
27	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past | Dick | Dick |  |  | after this | off *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **starve** | gerund · passive | Dick *not said here* |  |  |  | again | almost *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay down** | past | Dick | Dick |  | the door of Fitzwarren  Mr. |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme at door=Destination |

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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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