--- title: "Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming! — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming! Who acts: you, I, father. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/26/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/) / 26 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 2, sentence 26 "Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming! **Who acts:** you, I, father · **What happens:** stop, think, see, come · **To what, where:** father · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, father), 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:pg14241:16:26 # text = "Stop, stop, I think I see my father coming! 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 think think VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 see see VERB VB Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 10 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | I | my father | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **come** *in a quote* | gerund | my father *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/27/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)