--- title: But it wriggled out and ran, and the goodman after it without his br… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But it wriggled out and ran, and the goodman after it without his breeches; and there was a clean chase over the craft park, and in among the whins; and the goodman lost it, and had to come away, trotting home half naked. Who acts: half, goodman. 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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 (half, goodman), 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:pg14241:21:100 # text = But it wriggled out and ran, and the goodman after it without his breeches; and there was a clean chase over the craft park, and in among the whins; and the goodman lost it, and had to come away, trotting home half naked. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wriggled wriggle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 goodman goodman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 11 after after ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 without without ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 breeches breech NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 19 expl _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 23 over over ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 craft craft NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 park park NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 29 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 among among ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 whins whin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 goodman goodman NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ _ 44 away away ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 46 trotting trot VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ _ 47 home home ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 half half ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 49 advmod _ _ 49 naked naked ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wriggle out** | past | half | the goodman after Bannock | | | | without goodman's breeches | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **run** | past | half *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **is a** | past | | a clean chase | | the craft park and the whins | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lose** | past | the goodman | half | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 5 | **have** | past | the goodman *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **come away** | to-infinitive | the goodman *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **trot** | gerund | the goodman *not said here* | | | | | home, naked *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/101/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/)