--- title: Motikatika went out directly, and brought back quite a crowd of babi… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Motikatika went out directly, and brought back quite a crowd of babies, and shaved their heads and hung white beads round their little black necks, and just as he had finished, the ground began to shake, and the huge ogre came striding along, crying: “Motikatika! 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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 (Motikatika, ground, huge ogre), 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:pg2435:29:74 # text = Motikatika went out directly, and brought back quite a crowd of babies, and shaved their heads and hung white beads round their little black necks, and just as he had finished, the ground began to shake, and the huge ogre came striding along, crying: “Motikatika! 1 Motikatika Motikatika PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 out out ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 directly directly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 back back ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 quite quite ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 crowd crowd NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 babies baby NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 shaved shave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 17 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 21 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 beads bead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 round round ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 26 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 necks neck NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 ogre ogre NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ _ 47 striding stride VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 46 advcl _ _ 48 along along ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 : : PUNCT : _ 53 punct _ _ 52 “ " PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 Motikatika Motikatika PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | Motikatika | | | | | directly, out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bring back** | past | Motikatika *not said here* | a crowd of babies | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent crowd=Theme | | 3 | **shave** | past | | bones's heads | | | | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 4 | **hang** | past | | white beads | | | | round beads's little black necks | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bead=Patient | | 5 | **finish** | past · perfect | Motikatika | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **begin** | past | the ground | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **shake** | to-infinitive | the ground *not said here* | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **come** | past | the huge ogre | Motikatika | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **stride** | gerund | the huge ogre *not said here* | | | | | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the huge ogre *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/75/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/29/)