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title: At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house. Who acts: looking old 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 2

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At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house.

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**Who acts:** looking old gentleman · **What happens:** look, engage, take · **To what, where:** girl, last, home, house

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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 (looking old 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:pg7439:48:2
# text = At last a funny-looking old gentleman engaged her, and took her home to his house.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
4	funny	funny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	engaged	engage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **engage** | past | a looking old gentleman | girl |  | last |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | a looking old gentleman *not said here* | girl's home |  | gentleman's house |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to house=Destination |

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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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