--- title: And again she sang, and then she thought she saw her sister coming,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And again she sang, and then she thought she saw her sister coming, then her uncle, then her aunt, then her cousin; but after this the hangman said, "I will stop no longer, thou 'rt making game of me. Who acts: hangman, sister. 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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 (hangman, sister), 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:pg14241:16:32 # text = And again she sang, and then she thought she saw her sister coming, then her uncle, then her aunt, then her cousin; but after this the hangman said, "I will stop no longer, thou 'rt making game of me. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 uncle uncle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 21 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 22 aunt aunt NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 25 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 after after ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 32 det _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 hangman hangman NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 stop stop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 ccomp _ _ 39 no no ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 38 parataxis _ _ 43 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 rt Rt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 parataxis _ _ 45 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 46 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | hangman | | | | again | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | hangman | | | | then | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | hangman | hangman's sister and hangman's uncle and hangman's aunt and hangman's cousin | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus | | 4 | **come** | gerund | hangman's sister and hangman's uncle and hangman's aunt and hangman's cousin *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hangman *not said here* | | | | after this hangman | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **stop** *in a quote* | future | hangman | | | | | long *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **make** *in a quote* | gerund | hangman *not said here* | game of me | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset game=Product | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/33/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/16/)