--- title: "Dear, dear," said he, "I'd better go and get dry in the sun." So up… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Dear, dear," said he, "I'd better go and get dry in the sun." So up he went to the highroad, and lay down in the dust, rolling about so that the sun should get at him all over. Who acts: rt, sun. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/56/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [More English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/) / [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/) / 56 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 8, sentence 56 "Dear, dear," said he, "I'd better go and get dry in the sun." So up he went to the highroad, and lay down in the dust, rolling about so that the sun should get at him all over. **Who acts:** rt, sun · **What happens:** say, go, get, lay down, roll about · **To what, where:** sun., highroad, dust · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rt, sun), 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:pg14241:22:56 # text = "Dear, dear," said he, "I'd better go and get dry in the sun." So up he went to the highroad, and lay down in the dust, rolling about so that the sun should get at him all over. 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 14 advmod _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 17 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 xcomp _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 " " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ _ 22 So so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 up up ADP IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 highroad highroad NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 32 down down ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 advcl _ _ 38 about about ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 44 mark _ _ 40 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 fixed _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 advcl _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 47 all all ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 over over ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** *in a quote* | would | rt | | | | | well *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | infinitive | rt *not said here* | | | the sun. | | dry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **go** | past | rt | | | the highroad | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to highroad=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **lay down** | infinitive | rt *not said here* | | | the dust | | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dust=Destination | | 6 | **roll about** | gerund | rt *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **get** | should | the sun | | | | | at rt; over *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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 55](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/55/) - next →: [sentence 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/57/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/)