--- title: But he didn't watch it all the time, and all of a sudden he heard a… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But he didn't watch it all the time, and all of a sudden he heard a noise, and he looked up and the oven door popped open, and out of the oven jumped Johnny-cake, and went rolling along end over end, towards the open door of the house. Who acts: man, all, oven door. 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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, all, oven door), 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:pg7439:34:38 # text = But he didn't watch it all the time, and all of a sudden he heard a noise, and he looked up and the oven door popped open, and out of the oven jumped Johnny-cake, and went rolling along end over end, towards the open door of the house. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 24 up up ADP RP _ 23 compound:prt _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 popped pop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 30 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 out out ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 oven oven NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 37 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 38 Johnny Johnny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 44 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 xcomp _ _ 45 along along ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 47 over over ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 50 towards towards ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 52 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 53 amod _ _ 53 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 54 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 56 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **watch** | past · do-support | man | oven | | | time | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **hear** | past | all | a noise | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus | | 3 | **look up** | past | man | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **pop** | past | the oven door | | | | | open *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **jump** | past | all *not said here* | Johnny cake | | the oven | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cake=Theme out oven=Trajectory | | 6 | **go** | past | all *not said here* | | | | | towards the open door of the house | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **roll** | gerund | all *not said here* | | | | over end; along end | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme along end=Source over end=Trajectory | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/39/) - ↑ back to [Lazy Jack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/)