--- title: Home went the little woman, all in the dark; Up got the little dog,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Home went the little woman, all in the dark; Up got the little dog, and he began to bark; He began to bark, so she began to cry-- "Lawkamercyme, this is none of I!" Who acts: Home, Up, dog. 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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 (Home, Up, dog), 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:pg14241:20:85 # text = Home went the little woman, all in the dark; Up got the little dog, and he began to bark; He began to bark, so she began to cry-- "Lawkamercyme, this is none of I!" 1 Home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 5 appos _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 dark dark NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 Up Up PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 13 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 dog dog NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 bark bark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 bark bark VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 -- -- PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 " " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Lawkamercyme Lawkamercyme PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 40 det _ _ 39 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 40 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 2 parataxis _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 " " PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | Home | the little woman | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **get** | past | Up | the little dog | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dog=Stimulus | | 3 | **begin** | past | dog | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **bark** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **begin** | past | dog | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **bark** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **begin** | past | Up | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | Up *not said here* | Lawkamercyme | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawkamercyme=Topic | | 9 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | none | | | | of woman | tree rules | 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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/86/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/)