--- title: "Well, master," said the fool, "I fell into the water and got wet, s… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Well, master," said the fool, "I fell into the water and got wet, so I lay down in the road to get dry; and I lay down a fool an' got up a wise man." Who acts: master, '. 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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 (master, '), 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:pg14241:22:64 # text = "Well, master," said the fool, "I fell into the water and got wet, so I lay down in the road to get dry; and I lay down a fool an' got up a wise man." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 " " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 30 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 35 down down ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ' ' NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 41 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 amod _ _ 44 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 " " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | master | the fool | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | master | | | | | into the water *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result | | 3 | **get** *in a quote* | past | master *not said here* | | | | | wet *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **lay down** *in a quote* | present | master | | | the road | | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in road=Destination | | 5 | **get** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | master *not said here* | | | | | dry *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **lie down** *in a quote* | past | master | a fool | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **get up** *in a quote* | past | a ' | a wise man | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/65/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/22/)