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title: “You must call it 'hot cockalorum,' and what this?” he went on, poin… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: “You must call it 'hot cockalorum,' and what this?” he went on, pointing to the water. Who acts: You, gentleman. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 18

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“You must call it 'hot cockalorum,' and what this?” he went on, pointing to the water.

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**Who acts:** You, gentleman · **What happens:** call, go on, point · **To what, where:** fire, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, gentleman), 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:pg7439:48:18
# text = “You must call it 'hot cockalorum,' and what this?” he went on, pointing to the water.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cockalorum	cockalorum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	'	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	advcl	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | must | You | fire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go on** | past | gentleman |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **point** | gerund | gentleman *not said here* |  | the water |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to water=Recipient |

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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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