--- title: He gave a pull but it stuck, and she gave a pull but it stuck, and t… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: He gave a pull but it stuck, and she gave a pull but it stuck, and they both pulled till they had nigh pulled the nose off, but it stuck and stuck. Who acts: goodman, pull, goodwife, e'en. 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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 (goodman, pull, goodwife, e'en), 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:pg14241:24:45 # text = He gave a pull but it stuck, and she gave a pull but it stuck, and they both pulled till they had nigh pulled the nose off, but it stuck and stuck. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stuck stick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 both both ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 21 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 22 till till SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 stuck stuck ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | past | goodman | a pull | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme | | 2 | **stick** | past | pull | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **give** | past | goodwife | a pull | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pull=Theme | | 4 | **stick** | past | pull | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **pull** | past | e'en | | | | | both *property* | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **pull off** | past · perfect · passive | | e'en | | | | nigh *property* | tree rules | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/46/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/24/)