--- title: Then out ran some of the little people and brought in firewood and m… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then out ran some of the little people and brought in firewood and made a roaring blaze on the hearth, and there they cooked the flesh of the cow--they baked and they boiled, they stewed and they fried. Who acts: people, cows. 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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 (people, cows), 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:pg14241:22:127 # text = Then out ran some of the little people and brought in firewood and made a roaring blaze on the hearth, and there they cooked the flesh of the cow--they baked and they boiled, they stewed and they fried. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 out out ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 firewood firewood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 17 amod _ _ 17 blaze blaze NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hearth hearth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 cooked cook VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 baked bake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 boiled boil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 stewed stew VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 fried fry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | | some | | | then | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme some=Trajectory | | 2 | **bring** | past | | | | firewood | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | past | | a roaring blaze | | the hearth | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blaze=Product | | 4 | **roar** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **cook** | past | people | the flesh of the cow | | there | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient | | 6 | **bake** | past | cows *= cow* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **boil** | past | cows *= cow* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **stew** | past | cows *= cow* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **fry** | past | cows *= cow* | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/126/) - next →: [sentence 128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/128/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/)