--- title: Then the old man got up in his red cap, And swore he would catch the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the old man got up in his red cap, And swore he would catch the fox in a trap; But the fox was too cunning, and gave him the slip, And ran through the town, the town, oh! Who acts: old man, man, fox. 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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 (old man, man, fox), 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:pg14241:31:63 # text = Then the old man got up in his red cap, And swore he would catch the fox in a trap; But the fox was too cunning, and gave him the slip, And ran through the town, the town, oh! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 9 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 swore swear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 But but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 too too ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 cunning cunning ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 iobj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 slip slip NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 38 through through ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 town town NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 oh oh INTJ UH _ 37 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | the old man | | | man's red cap | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **swear** | past | | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 3 | **catch** | would | man | the fox | | a trap | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | | 4 | **is** | past | the fox | | | | | cunning *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | past | the old man *not said here* | the slip | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient slip=Theme | | 6 | **run** | past | | | | the town and the town | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through town=Trajectory | 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 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/62/) - next →: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/64/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/31/)