--- title: There was a great cry from the bogles when they saw half the giant c… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: There was a great cry from the bogles when they saw half the giant come tumbling down to them, and they called out, "There comes half our master, give us the other half." Who acts: great cry, bogles. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great cry, bogles), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg14241:16:10 # text = There was a great cry from the bogles when they saw half the giant come tumbling down to them, and they called out, "There comes half our master, give us the other half." 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 2 expl _ _ 2 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 cry cry NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bogles bogle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 11 advmod _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 14 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 xcomp _ _ 16 tumbling tumble VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 xcomp _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 out out ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 28 expl _ _ 28 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 29 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 31 advmod _ _ 30 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 34 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 iobj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 " " PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **be** | past | a great cry | | | the bogles; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | bogles *= bogle* | | | | | giant *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | bogles *= bogle* *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **tumble down** | gerund | bogles *= bogle* *not said here* | | bogles *= bogle* | | | down *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to they=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **call out** *speech: assert* | past | bogles *= bogle* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | present | | our master | | there | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the other half | us | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient half=Theme | 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. **Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/9/) - next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/11/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)