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title: The lad was overjoyed to get this stick--so away he went with it to… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The lad was overjoyed to get this stick--so away he went with it to the inn, and as soon as the publican, appeared, “Up stick and bang him!” was his cry. Who acts: man. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# English Fairy Tales, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick, sentence 41

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The lad was overjoyed to get this stick--so away he went with it to the inn, and as soon as the publican, appeared, “Up stick and bang him!” was his cry.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** overjoy, get, go, appear, bang, be · **To what, where:** lad, stick, inn, man, cry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Ass, the Table, and the Stick. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg7439:45:41
# text = The lad was overjoyed to get this stick--so away he went with it to the inn, and as soon as the publican, appeared, “Up stick and bang him!” was his cry.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	lad	lad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	overjoyed	overjoy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	as	as	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	publican	publican	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	case	_	_
31	stick	stick	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	bang	bang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	33	punct	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	cop	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **overjoy** | past · passive |  | the lad |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive |  | this stick |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stick=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | past | man |  |  | the inn |  | with tree; away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to inn=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **appear** | past |  |  |  |  |  | as the publican; up stick; soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **bang** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 6 | **be** *speech: express* | past |  | man's cry |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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