--- title: But the wee bannock ran away and out of sight, and ran till it came… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But the wee bannock ran away and out of sight, and ran till it came to a pretty large thatched house, and it ran boldly up inside to the fireside; and there were three tailors sitting on a big bench. Who acts: wee bannock, Bannock, three tailors. 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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 (wee bannock, Bannock, three tailors), 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:pg14241:21:35 # text = But the wee bannock ran away and out of sight, and ran till it came to a pretty large thatched house, and it ran boldly up inside to the fireside; and there were three tailors sitting on a big bench. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 wee wee ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 bannock bannock NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 away away ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 8 out out ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 till till SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 ccomp _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 21 thatched thatch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 27 boldly boldly ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 29 inside inside ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fireside fireside NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 36 expl _ _ 36 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 tailors tailor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 39 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | past | the wee bannock | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **run** | past | the wee bannock *not said here* | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **come** | past | Bannock | | | a large thatched house | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **thatch** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **run** | past | Bannock | | | | | to the fireside *result*; inside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to fireside=Result | | 6 | **be** | past | three tailors | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **sit** | gerund | three tailors *not said here* | | | a big bench | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bench=Location | 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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/36/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/)