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title: The merchant, bustling up in such a hurry that he forgot his gout, o… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The merchant, bustling up in such a hurry that he forgot his gout, opened the door, and who should he see waiting but the captain and factor, with a cabinet of jewels, and a bill of lading; when he looked at this the merchant lifted up his eyes and thanked Heaven for sending him such a prosperous vo
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 82

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The merchant, bustling up in such a hurry that he forgot his gout, opened the door, and who should he see waiting but the captain and factor, with a cabinet of jewels, and a bill of lading; when he looked at this the merchant lifted up his eyes and thanked Heaven for sending him such a prosperous voyage.

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**Who acts:** merchant, Fitzwarren, bill · **What happens:** bustle up, forget, open, see, wait, lade · **To what, where:** hurry, gout, door, eyes, Heaven, Fitzwarren

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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 (merchant, Fitzwarren, bill), 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:pg7439:37:82
# text = The merchant, bustling up in such a hurry that he forgot his gout, opened the door, and who should he see waiting but the captain and factor, with a cabinet of jewels, and a bill of lading; when he looked at this the merchant lifted up his eyes and thanked Heaven for sending him such a prosperous voyage.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	bustling	bustle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	9	det:predet	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hurry	hurry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	gout	gout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
25	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	xcomp	_	_
26	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	factor	factor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
41	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
42	lading	lade	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	40	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
44	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	46	advmod	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	obl	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	merchant	merchant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	conj	_	_
52	up	up	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	thanked	thank	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	conj	_	_
57	Heaven	Heaven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
58	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	59	mark	_	_
59	sending	send	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	56	advcl	_	_
60	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	obj	_	_
61	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	64	det:predet	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	64	amod	_	_
64	voyage	voyage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bustle up** | gerund | the merchant *not said here* |  |  | such hurry |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hurry=Trajectory |
| 2 | **forget** | past | Fitzwarren | Fitzwarren's gout |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **open** | past | the merchant | the door |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | should |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **wait** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **lade** | gerund | a bill *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **look** | past | Fitzwarren |  |  |  |  | at this | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at this=Theme |
| 8 | **lift up** | past | the merchant | Fitzwarren's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 9 | **thank** *speech: thank* | past | the merchant *not said here* |  | Heaven |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heaven=Theme |
| 10 | **send** | gerund | the merchant *not said here* | Fitzwarren |  |  |  | such prosperous voyage *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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