--- title: Oh, a stick for my mother's fire," said Tom; and espying a tree bigg… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Oh, a stick for my mother's fire," said Tom; and espying a tree bigger than was in the cart, he laid it on his shoulders and went home with it as fast as the cart and six horses could draw it. Who acts: stick, Tom, six horses, mother. 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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 (stick, Tom, six horses, mother), 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:pg14241:19:16 # text = Oh, a stick for my mother's fire," said Tom; and espying a tree bigger than was in the cart, he laid it on his shoulders and went home with it as fast as the cart and six horses could draw it. 1 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 Tom Tom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 espying espy VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 xcomp _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 shoulders shoulder NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 34 home home ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 37 as as ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 39 as as ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 horses horse NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 45 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 draw draw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 conj _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | a stick for my mother's fire | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **espy** *in a quote* | gerund | a stick for my mother's fire *not said here* | a tree | | | | big *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | past | | | | | | than the cart | tree rules | | 4 | **lay** *in a quote* | past | Tom | tree | | Tom's shoulders | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on shoulder=Destination | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | past | a stick for my mother's fire *not said here* | | | | | with stick; as the cart; fast, home *property* | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary | | 6 | **draw** *in a quote* | could | six horses | tree | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **fire** | | my mother | | | | | | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/17/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/19/)