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title: The behaviour of the cook was now a little better; but besides this… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The behaviour of the cook was now a little better; but besides this Dick had another hardship to get over. Who acts: behaviour, Dick. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 29

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The behaviour of the cook was now a little better; but besides this Dick had another hardship to get over.

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**Who acts:** behaviour, Dick · **What happens:** be, have, get over · **To what, where:** hardship

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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 (behaviour, 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:pg7439:37:29
# text = The behaviour of the cook was now a little better; but besides this Dick had another hardship to get over.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	behaviour	behaviour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	obl	_	_
10	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	hardship	hardship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	_
21	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | the behaviour of the cook |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | this Dick | another hardship |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hardship=Patient |
| 3 | **get over** | to-infinitive | this Dick *not said here* | another hardship *not said here* |  |  |  | over *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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