--- title: Johnny-cake stopped his race for the first time, and went a little c… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Johnny-cake stopped his race for the first time, and went a little closer, and called out in a very loud voice _“I've outrun an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy, and two well-diggers, and two ditch-diggers, and a bear, and a wolf, and I can outrun you too-o-o.” Who acts: Johnny cake, I, f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/64/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Lazy Jack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/) / 64 # English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 64 Johnny-cake stopped his race for the first time, and went a little closer, and called out in a very loud voice \_“I've outrun an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy, and two well-diggers, and two ditch-diggers, and a bear, and a wolf, and I can outrun you too-o-o.” **Who acts:** Johnny cake, I, fox · **What happens:** stop, go, call out, outrun, race · **To what, where:** race, loud voice, old man, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Johnny cake, I, fox), 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:pg7439:34:64 # text = Johnny-cake stopped his race for the first time, and went a little closer, and called out in a very loud voice _“I've outrun an old man, and an old woman, and a little boy, and two well-diggers, and two ditch-diggers, and a bear, and a wolf, and I can outrun you too-o-o.” 1 Johnny Johnny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 for for ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 amod _ _ 10 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 16 closer close ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 parataxis _ _ 20 out out ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 23 very very ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 26 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 “ " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 've have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 outrun outrun VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 31 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl:agent _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 nummod _ _ 47 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 diggers digger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 52 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 nummod _ _ 53 ditch ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 diggers digger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 58 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 61 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 62 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 65 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 66 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 68 nsubj _ _ 67 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 68 outrun outrun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 69 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 68 obj _ _ 70 too too ADV RB _ 68 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 71 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 70 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 o of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 74 case _ SpaceAfter=No 73 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 72 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 74 o o INTJ UH _ 68 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 76 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stop** | past | Johnny cake | fox's race | | | time | two diggers *obl*; two ditch diggers *obl* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality race=Eventuality | | 2 | **go** | past | Johnny cake *not said here* | | | | | close *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | a loud voice | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **outrun** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | a old man | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **outrun** *in a quote* | can | I | you | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **race** | | fox | | | | | | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/65/) - ↑ back to [Lazy Jack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/)