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title: Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his cry rang out: Who acts: cat, cry. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 59

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Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his cry rang out:

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**Who acts:** cat, cry · **What happens:** go, meet, hang, ring out, cry · **To what, where:** boy, dog

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, cry), 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:pg14241:32:59
# text = Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his cry rang out:
1	Away	away	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
13	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past |  | the boy |  |  |  | away *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past |  | a dog and a cat |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | a cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **hang** | to-infinitive · passive | a cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V» |
| 5 | **ring out** | past | cat's cry |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** |  | cat |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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