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title: Now Dick had heard a great many very strange things about the great… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now Dick had heard a great many very strange things about the great city called London; for the country people at that time thought that folks in London were all fine gentlemen and ladies; and that there was singing and music there all day long; and that the streets were all paved with gold. Who act
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 3

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Now Dick had heard a great many very strange things about the great city called London; for the country people at that time thought that folks in London were all fine gentlemen and ladies; and that there was singing and music there all day long; and that the streets were all paved with gold.

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**Who acts:** Dick, folks · **What happens:** hear, call, think, be, sing, pave · **To what, where:** great many strange things, great city, fine gentlemen, streets · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, folks), 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:pg7439:37:3
# text = Now Dick had heard a great many very strange things about the great city called London; for the country people at that time thought that folks in London were all fine gentlemen and ladies; and that there was singing and music there all day long; and that the streets were all paved with gold.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
11	about	about	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
25	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
27	folks	folk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	London	London	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	cop	_	_
31	all	all	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	gentlemen	gentleman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	ccomp	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	40	expl	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
44	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	41	advmod	_	_
45	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	46	det	_	_
46	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl:unmarked	_	_
47	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
50	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj:pass	_	_
53	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	aux:pass	_	_
54	all	all	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
55	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
56	with	with	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past · perfect | Dick | a great many strange things |  |  | now | about the great city | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
| 2 | **call** | participle |  | the great city *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | Dick *not said here* |  |  |  | time | for the country people | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past | folks in London | fine gentlemen and ladies |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · progressive | Dick *not said here* |  |  | there | day |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **pave** | past · passive |  | the streets |  |  |  | with gold; all *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with gold=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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