--- title: You'll scarce believe it, but he'd hardly brought out the words but… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: You'll scarce believe it, but he'd hardly brought out the words but he felt something tweaking his leg behind, while he jumped with the smart of it; and soon as he looked down, there was the tiddy thing, with his shining hair, and wrinkled face, and wicked glinting black eyne. 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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 (You, Tom, tiddy thing), 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:pg14241:17:97 # text = You'll scarce believe it, but he'd hardly brought out the words but he felt something tweaking his leg behind, while he jumped with the smart of it; and soon as he looked down, there was the tiddy thing, with his shining hair, and wrinkled face, and wicked glinting black eyne. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 scarce scarce VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 5 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 'd have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 18 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 17 obj _ _ 19 tweaking tweak VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 18 acl _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 leg leg NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 behind behind ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 while while SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 35 as as SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 down down ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 41 expl _ _ 41 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 tiddy tiddy NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 48 shining shine VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 49 amod _ _ 49 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 wrinkled wrinkle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 53 amod _ _ 53 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 56 wicked wicked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 glinting glint VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 59 amod _ _ 58 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 eyne eyne NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 60 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scarce** | future | You | wrinkled face | | | | with Tom's shining hair; glinting black eyne *obl* | tree rules | | 2 | **believe** | infinitive | You *not said here* | fist | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 3 | **bring out** | past · perfect | Tom | the words | | | | hardly *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 4 | **feel** | past | Tom | something | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | | 5 | **tweak** | gerund | | Tom's leg | | | | behind *property* | vn touch-20 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Experiencer | | 6 | **jump** | past | Tom | | | | | smart *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **look down** | past | Tom | | | | | soon *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 8 | **be** | past | the tiddy thing | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **shine** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **wrinkle** | participle | | | | | | | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **glint** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/98/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/17/)