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title: It would throw the chairs down, put tables on their backs, rake out… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: It would throw the chairs down, put tables on their backs, rake out fires, and do as much mischief as could be. Who acts: bed. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, The Cauld Lad of Hilton, sentence 3

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It would throw the chairs down, put tables on their backs, rake out fires, and do as much mischief as could be.

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**Who acts:** bed · **What happens:** throw down, put, rake out, do · **To what, where:** chairs, tables, backs, fires, much mischief

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Cauld Lad of Hilton. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bed), 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:pg7439:44:3
# text = It would throw the chairs down, put tables on their backs, rake out fires, and do as much mischief as could be.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chairs	chair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	down	down	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	put	put	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	tables	table	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	backs	back	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	rake	rake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	out	out	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
20	as	as	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	mischief	mischief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw down** | would | bed | the chairs |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chair=Theme |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive |  | tables |  | tables's backs |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme on back=Destination |
| 3 | **rake out** | infinitive |  | fires |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent fire=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **do** | present |  | much mischief |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |

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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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