--- title: So he went on and he went on and he went on, as far as I could tell… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: So he went on and he went on and he went on, as far as I could tell you till to-morrow night, and he went up to a farmhouse and begged a crust of bread, and when he got back he broke it in two and gave half of it to the bull-calf. Who acts: father, I. 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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 (father, I), 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:pg14241:30:82 # text = So he went on and he went on and he went on, as far as I could tell you till to-morrow night, and he went up to a farmhouse and begged a crust of bread, and when he got back he broke it in two and gave half of it to the bull-calf. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 on on ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 on on ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 as as ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 16 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 iobj _ _ 21 till till ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 farmhouse farmhouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 crust crust NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 bread bread NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 42 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 44 advmod _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 advcl _ _ 45 back back ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 46 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 broke break VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 48 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 obj _ _ 49 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 47 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 52 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 47 conj _ _ 53 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 52 obj _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 nmod _ _ 56 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 57 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 58 bull bull NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 calf calf NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | father | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go on** | past | father | | | | | | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go on** | past | father | | | | | far *property* | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | could | I | | you | | night | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 5 | **go up** | past | father | | | | | to a farmhouse | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 6 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | father *not said here* | a crust of bread | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent crust=Recipient | | 7 | **get back** | past | father | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **break** | past | father | crust | | two | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient | | 9 | **give** | past | father *not said here* | half of bread | the bull calf | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to calf=Recipient | 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 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/81/) - next →: [sentence 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/83/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/30/)