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title: Out the little old woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Out the little old woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall, or ran into the wood and was lost there, or found her way out of the wood and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell. Who acts: little old woman, woman, I. 
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# The Green Fairy Book, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’, sentence 13

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Out the little old woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall, or ran into the wood and was lost there, or found her way out of the wood and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell.

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**Who acts:** little old woman, woman, I · **What happens:** jump, break, run, lose, find, take up · **To what, where:** neck, fall, wood, way, House · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, ‘somebody Has Been Lying in My Bed!’. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little old woman, woman, I), 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:pg7277:35:13
# text = Out the little old woman jumped; and whether she broke her neck in the fall, or ran into the wood and was lost there, or found her way out of the wood and was taken up by the constable and sent to the House of Correction for a vagrant as she was, I cannot tell.
1	Out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
26	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	out	out	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
39	up	up	ADP	RP	_	38	compound:prt	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	constable	constable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	obl	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	conj	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	Correction	Correction	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
50	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	vagrant	vagrant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
53	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	55	mark	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
57	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	60	advmod	_	_
60	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump** | past | the little old woman |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **break** | past | woman | woman's neck |  | the fall |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
| 3 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  | into the wood *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
| 4 | **lose** | past · passive |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **find** | past |  | woman's way |  | the wood |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
| 6 | **take up** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | by the constable | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP» |
| 7 | **send** | participle |  |  | the House of Correction |  |  | for a vagrant | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination |
| 8 | **be** | past | woman |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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