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title: The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it, crying out… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it, crying out to his father and mother, who heard the uproar, and threw down their hoes and gave chase too. Who acts: little boy, mother. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 40

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The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it, crying out to his father and mother, who heard the uproar, and threw down their hoes and gave chase too.

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**Who acts:** little boy, mother · **What happens:** run, cry out, hear, throw down, give · **To what, where:** CAKE, father, uproar, hoes, chase

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This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little boy, mother), 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:pg7439:34:40
# text = The little boy ran after him as fast as he could clip it, crying out to his father and mother, who heard the uproar, and threw down their hoes and gave chase too.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	clip	clip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
16	out	out	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	hoes	hoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
35	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
36	too	too	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the little boy | CAKE |  |  | after door | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 2 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | the little boy *not said here* |  | boy's father and mother |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to father=Recipient |
| 3 | **hear** | past | mother | the uproar |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer uproar=Stimulus |
| 4 | **throw down** | past |  | steps's hoes |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hoe=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | past |  | chase |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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