--- title: As soon as the waggoner heard that poor Dick had no father or mother… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the waggoner heard that poor Dick had no father or mother, and saw by his ragged clothes that he could not be worse off than he was, he told him he might go if he would, so off they set together. Who acts: waggoner, poor Dick, Dick, waggon. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (waggoner, poor Dick, Dick, waggon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7439:37:6 # text = As soon as the waggoner heard that poor Dick had no father or mother, and saw by his ragged clothes that he could not be worse off than he was, he told him he might go if he would, so off they set together. 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 waggoner waggoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 11 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 12 det _ _ 12 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 or or CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 ragged ragged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 17 obl _ _ 22 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 24 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 17 conj _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 ccomp _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 44 off off ADP IN _ 46 mark _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 47 together together ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | the waggoner | | | | | soon *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **have** | past | poor Dick | no father or mother | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | | 3 | **see** | past | the waggoner *not said here* | | | | | by Dick's ragged clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **not** **is** | could | Dick | | | | | bad *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | past | Dick | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Dick | | waggoner | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **go** | might | Dick | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **set** | present | waggon | | | | | together *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/7/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)