--- title: “Go on a little further,” said the hen-wife, “till you come to a rou… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Go on a little further,” said the hen-wife, “till you come to a round green hill, surrounded with terrace-rings, from the bottom to the top; go round it three times, widershins, and each time say: Who acts: hen wife, you. 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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 (hen wife, you), 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:pg7439:24:34 # text = “Go on a little further,” said the hen-wife, “till you come to a round green hill, surrounded with terrace-rings, from the bottom to the top; go round it three times, widershins, and each time say: 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 3 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 obl _ _ 6 further far ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 15 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 till till SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 advcl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 21 round round ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 22 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 terrace terrace NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 rings ring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 38 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 39 round round ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 widershins widershin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 47 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 48 det _ _ 48 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl:unmarked _ _ 49 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | far *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hen wife | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you | | | the bottom to the top | | to a round green hill | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to hill=Initial\_Location from bottom=Destination | | 4 | **surround** *in a quote* | participle | | a round green hill *not said here* | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | top | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round it=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | time | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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:** «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 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/33/) - next →: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/35/) - ↑ back to [Childe Rowland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/24/)