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title: One day a large waggon and eight horses, all with bells at their hea… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: One day a large waggon and eight horses, all with bells at their heads, drove through the village while Dick was standing by the sign-post. Who acts: large waggon, Dick. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and His Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 4

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One day a large waggon and eight horses, all with bells at their heads, drove through the village while Dick was standing by the sign-post.

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**Who acts:** large waggon, Dick · **What happens:** drive, stand · **To what, where:** village

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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 (large waggon, 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:pg7439:37:4
# text = One day a large waggon and eight horses, all with bells at their heads, drove through the village while Dick was standing by the sign-post.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	waggon	waggon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	appos	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	village	village	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Dick	Dick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
27	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drive** | past | a large waggon and eight horses |  |  | the village | day |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through village=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | Dick |  |  |  |  | by the sign post | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by post=Location |

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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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