--- title: Then all the morning's work came back to the woodman, and he told hi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then all the morning's work came back to the woodman, and he told his tale right out, from beginning to end, and as he told it the goodwife glowered and glowered, and when he had made an end of it she burst out, "Thou bee'st but a fool, Jan, thou bee'st but a fool; and I wish the pudding were at thy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/43/) [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 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/) / 43 # More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 43 Then all the morning's work came back to the woodman, and he told his tale right out, from beginning to end, and as he told it the goodwife glowered and glowered, and when he had made an end of it she burst out, "Thou bee'st but a fool, Jan, thou bee'st but a fool; and I wish the pudding were at thy nose, I do indeed." **Who acts:** work, goodwife, end, Thou, pudding, morning · **What happens:** come back, tell, begin, glower, make, burst out · **To what, where:** woodman, tale, nose · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (work, goodwife, end, Thou), 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:pg14241:24:43 # text = Then all the morning's work came back to the woodman, and he told his tale right out, from beginning to end, and as he told it the goodwife glowered and glowered, and when he had made an end of it she burst out, "Thou bee'st but a fool, Jan, thou bee'st but a fool; and I wish the pudding were at thy nose, I do indeed." 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 7 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 6 det:predet _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 5 's 's PART POS _ 4 case _ _ 6 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 woodman woodman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 right right ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 out out ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 from from SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 15 advcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 goodwife goodwife NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 glowered glower VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 ccomp _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 glowered glower VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 38 when when SCONJ WRB _ 41 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 47 advcl _ _ 42 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nmod _ _ 46 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 burst burst VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 parataxis _ _ 48 out out ADP RP _ 47 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 " " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 52 nsubj _ _ 52 bee'st bee'st NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ _ 53 but but CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 57 Jan January PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 60 nsubj _ _ 60 bee'st bee'st NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 appos _ _ 61 but but CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 fool fool NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ; ; PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 66 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 68 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 69 pudding pudding NOUN NN Number=Sing 73 nsubj _ _ 70 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 73 cop _ _ 71 at at ADP IN _ 73 case _ _ 72 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 73 nmod:poss _ _ 73 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 74 , , PUNCT , _ 76 punct _ _ 75 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 76 nsubj _ _ 76 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 77 indeed indeed ADV RB _ 76 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 78 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 79 " " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come back** | past | the morning's work | | | the woodman | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to woodman=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | work | woodman's tale | | | | out *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | | 3 | **begin** | gerund | work *not said here* | | | | to end | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | work | | tale | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **glower** | past | the goodwife | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **glower** | past | the goodwife *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **make** | past · perfect | work | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **burst out** | past | a end of tale | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **bee'st** *in a quote* | | Thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **bee'st** *in a quote* | | thou | | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **wish** *in a quote* | present | work | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 12 | **is** *in a quote* | past | the pudding | | | thy nose | | | tree rules | | 13 | **do** *in a quote* | present | work | | | | | indeed *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 14 | **work** | | the morning | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent | | 15 | **tell** | | woodman | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/44/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/)