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title: I, hearing the dog howl, jumped over the wall; and turned it as neat… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I, hearing the dog howl, jumped over the wall; and turned it as neatly inside out as possible, when it ran away as if it had not an hour to live. Who acts: I, wall. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 4, sentence 92

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I, hearing the dog howl, jumped over the wall; and turned it as neatly inside out as possible, when it ran away as if it had not an hour to live.

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**Who acts:** I, wall · **What happens:** hear, jump, turn, run away, live · **To what, where:** dog howl, wall, howl

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wall), 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:pg14241:18:92
# text = I, hearing the dog howl, jumped over the wall; and turned it as neatly inside out as possible, when it ran away as if it had not an hour to live.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	howl	howl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	neatly	neatly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
18	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
28	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
30	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
32	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | I | the dog howl |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer howl=Stimulus |
| 2 | **jump** | past | I *not said here* |  |  | the wall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **turn** | past |  | howl |  |  |  | neatly, out *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **run away** | past | wall |  |  |  | hour | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **live** | to-infinitive | wall *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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