--- title: Well, the ogre had his breakfast, and after that he goes to a big ch… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Well, the ogre had his breakfast, and after that he goes to a big chest and takes out of it a couple of bags of gold and sits down counting them till at last his head began to nod and he began to snore till the whole house shook again. Who acts: ogre, whole house. 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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 (ogre, whole house), 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:pg7439:16:73 # text = Well, the ogre had his breakfast, and after that he goes to a big chest and takes out of it a couple of bags of gold and sits down counting them till at last his head began to nod and he began to snore till the whole house shook again. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 ogre ogre NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 after after ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 20 out out ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 couple couple NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 sits sit VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 down down ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 counting count VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 till till SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 39 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 nod nod VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 45 to to PART TO _ 46 mark _ _ 46 snore snore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 xcomp _ _ 47 till till SCONJ IN _ 51 mark _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 49 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 amod _ _ 50 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 51 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 52 again again ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | the ogre | ogre's breakfast | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | | 2 | **go** | present | ogre | | | a big chest | after that | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to chest=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **take out** | present | ogre *not said here* | breakfast | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **sit down** | present | ogre *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **count** | gerund | ogre *not said here* | bags *= bag* | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **begin** | past | ogre *not said here* | | | ogre's last head | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **nod** | to-infinitive | ogre *not said here* | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **begin** | past | ogre | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 9 | **snore** | to-infinitive | ogre *not said here* | | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **shake** | past | the whole house | | | | again | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | 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 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/72/) - next →: [sentence 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/74/) - ↑ back to [Jack and the Beanstalk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/16/)