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title: He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good, by leaving them gifts on appropriate occasions like Santa Claus or Father Christmas, who, as is well known, only leave things for good children. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca., with its depen
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# English Fairy Tales, XXX. Mr. Miacca., sentence 7

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He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good, by leaving them gifts on appropriate occasions like Santa Claus or Father Christmas, who, as is well known, only leave things for good children.

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**What happens:** not punish, reward, leave, know · **To what, where:** Miacca, good, boys, appropriate occasions, things

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXX. Mr. Miacca.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg7439:80:7
# text = He not alone punished bad boys, as here, but also rewarded the good, by leaving them gifts on appropriate occasions like Santa Claus or Father Christmas, who, as is well known, only leave things for good children.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	punished	punish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	boys	boy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	also	also	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	rewarded	reward	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	appropriate	appropriate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	occasions	occasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Santa	Santa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	Claus	Claus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	flat	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	Christmas	Christmas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
35	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	36	advmod	_	_
36	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	only	only	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
40	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **punish** | participle · passive |  | Miacca |  |  |  | alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reward** | past |  | the good |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent good=Recipient |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund |  | boys *= boy* |  | appropriate occasions like Santa or Father |  |  | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent they=Theme gift=Attribute |
| 4 | **know** | present · passive |  | appropriate occasions like Santa or Father |  |  |  | well *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **leave** | infinitive |  | things |  |  |  | for good children | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Theme for child=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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