--- title: Everybody ran everywhere, and tried to do everything at once; and, i… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Everybody ran everywhere, and tried to do everything at once; and, in the middle of it all, the old governor went about with his hair standing on end, muttering something about “obeying orders.” Who acts: Everybody, middle. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/179/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronge…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/) / 179 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 179 Everybody ran everywhere, and tried to do everything at once; and, in the middle of it all, the old governor went about with his hair standing on end, muttering something about “obeying orders.” **Who acts:** Everybody, middle · **What happens:** run, try, do, go about, stand, mutter · **To what, where:** everything, end, something, orders · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Everybody, middle), 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:pg3282:33:179 # text = Everybody ran everywhere, and tried to do everything at once; and, in the middle of it all, the old governor went about with his hair standing on end, muttering something about “obeying orders.” 1 Everybody everybody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 2 nsubj _ _ 2 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 everywhere everywhere ADV RB PronType=Tot 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 8 obj _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 det _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 governor governor NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 25 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 26 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 31 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 muttering mutter VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 conj _ _ 35 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obj _ _ 36 about about SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 obeying obey VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ _ 39 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | Everybody | | | | | everywhere *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **try** | past | Everybody *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Everybody *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality | | 4 | **go about** | past | the middle of news and the old governor | | | | | with town's hair; about *property* | vn confront-98 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with hair=Instrument | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | the middle of news and the old governor *not said here* | | | | on end | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on end=Location | | 6 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | the middle of news and the old governor *not said here* | something | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 7 | **obey** *in a quote* | gerund | the middle of news and the old governor *not said here* | orders | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 178](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/178/) - next →: [sentence 180](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/180/) - ↑ back to [Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/33/)