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title: The grey goose she ran round the hay-stack, "Oh, ho!" said the fox,… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The grey goose she ran round the hay-stack, "Oh, ho!" said the fox, "you are very fat; You'll grease my beard and ride on my back From this into yonder wee town, e-ho!" Who acts: grey goose, ho, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, with i
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 59

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The grey goose she ran round the hay-stack, "Oh, ho!" said the fox, "you are very fat; You'll grease my beard and ride on my back From this into yonder wee town, e-ho!"

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**Who acts:** grey goose, ho, you · **What happens:** run, say, be, grease, ride · **To what, where:** fox, beard, back · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grey goose, ho, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:31:59
# text = The grey goose she ran round the hay-stack, "Oh, ho!" said the fox, "you are very fat; You'll grease my beard and ride on my back From this into yonder wee town, e-ho!"
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	hay	hay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	stack	stack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	ho	ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	grease	grease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	From	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	34	obl	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	wee	wee	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	e-ho	e-ho	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the grey goose |  |  |  |  | round the hay stack | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: express* | past | ho | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent fox=Topic |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | fat *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **grease** *in a quote* | future | You | my beard |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent beard=Destination |
| 5 | **ride** *in a quote* | present | You *not said here* |  |  | my back |  | from this; into wee town and e-ho | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from this=Trajectory |

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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.

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**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.

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