--- title: Well, off he went in his cart to market, and the wife said to hersel… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, off he went in his cart to market, and the wife said to herself: “I will keep the ten pounds quite safe from thieves;” so she tied it up in a rag, and she put the rag up the parlour chimney. Who acts: man, wife. 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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 (man, wife), 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:pg7439:13:7 # text = Well, off he went in his cart to market, and the wife said to herself: “I will keep the ten pounds quite safe from thieves;” so she tied it up in a rag, and she put the rag up the parlour chimney. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 off off ADP IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 market market NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 19 “ " PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 pounds pound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obj _ _ 26 quite quite ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 thieves thief NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 rag rag NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 rag rag NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 parlour parlour NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | man | | | man's cart | | to market | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to market=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the wife | | wife | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | | 3 | **keep** *in a quote* | future | the wife *= wife* | the ten pounds | | | | safe *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pound=Theme | | 4 | **tie up** | past | wife | market | | a rag | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **put up** | past | wife | the rag | | | | the parlour chimney *obl* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rag=Goal | 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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/8/) - ↑ back to [Jack Hannaford](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/13/)