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title: The fox called out in a sharp voice, but without getting up: “Where… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The fox called out in a sharp voice, but without getting up: “Where ye going Johnny-cake?” Who acts: ye. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 61

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The fox called out in a sharp voice, but without getting up: “Where ye going Johnny-cake?”

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** call out, get up, go · **To what, where:** fox, sharp voice, Johnny cake · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ye), 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:pg7439:34:61
# text = The fox called out in a sharp voice, but without getting up: “Where ye going Johnny-cake?”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
17	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nsubj	_	_
18	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
19	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	cake	cake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: ask* | participle |  | the fox *not said here* |  | a sharp voice |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get up** | gerund | ye *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | ye | Johnny cake |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cake=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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