--- title: And first he arrived at a farmer's yard, Where the ducks and the gee… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And first he arrived at a farmer's yard, Where the ducks and the geese declared it was hard, That their nerves should be shaken and their rest should be marred By the visits of Mister Fox-o! Who acts: Waggle, ducks, visits. 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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 (Waggle, ducks, visits), 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:pg14241:31:57 # text = And first he arrived at a farmer's yard, Where the ducks and the geese declared it was hard, That their nerves should be shaken and their rest should be marred By the visits of Mister Fox-o! 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 farmer farmer NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 's 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 17 advmod _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 ducks duck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 geese goose NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 17 declared declare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 expl _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 22 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 23 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 nerves nerve NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 shaken shake VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 29 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 rest rest NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 marred mar VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 conj _ _ 34 By by ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 visits visit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 38 Mister Mister PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 39 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 o o NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | Waggle | | | | | at a farmer's yard; first *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | the ducks and the geese | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | past | the ducks and the geese *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **shake** | should · passive | | That | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **mar** | should · passive | the visits of Mister Fox o | ducks's rest | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **visit** | | | Mister Fox o | | | | | nom visit «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/58/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)