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title: But this poor fellow was too kind-hearted to keep it all to himself;… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But this poor fellow was too kind-hearted to keep it all to himself; so he made a present to the captain, the mate, and the rest of Mr. Fitzwarren's servants; and even to the ill-natured old cook. Who acts: poor fellow, fellow. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Whittington and Hi
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# English Fairy Tales, Whittington and His Cat, sentence 97

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But this poor fellow was too kind-hearted to keep it all to himself; so he made a present to the captain, the mate, and the rest of Mr. Fitzwarren's servants; and even to the ill-natured old cook.

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**Who acts:** poor fellow, fellow · **What happens:** be, keep, make · **To what, where:** part, fellow, present

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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 (poor fellow, fellow), 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:pg7439:37:97
# text = But this poor fellow was too kind-hearted to keep it all to himself; so he made a present to the captain, the mate, and the rest of Mr. Fitzwarren's servants; and even to the ill-natured old cook.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fellow	fellow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	too	too	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	kind	kind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	hearted	hearted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	captain	captain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:desc	_	_
34	Fitzwarren	Fitzwarren	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	46	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
42	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	natured	natured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
45	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	cook	cook	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this poor fellow |  |  |  |  | hearted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | to-infinitive | this poor fellow *not said here* | part | fellow |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | fellow | a present |  |  |  | to the captain and the mate | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent present=Product |

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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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