--- title: “Can't quite hear you; won't you come a _little_ closer?” said the f… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “Can't quite hear you; won't you come a _little_ closer?” said the fox in a feeble voice, as he stretched out his neck towards Johnny-cake, and put one paw behind his ear. Who acts: you, fox. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/66/) [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/) / 66 # English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 66 “Can't quite hear you; won't you come a \_little\_ closer?” said the fox in a feeble voice, as he stretched out his neck towards Johnny-cake, and put one paw behind his ear. **Who acts:** you, fox · **What happens:** not hear, not come, say, stretch out, put · **To what, where:** you, \_ little, feeble voice, neck, one paw, ear · **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 (you, 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:pg7439:34:66 # text = “Can't quite hear you; won't you come a _little_ closer?” said the fox in a feeble voice, as he stretched out his neck towards Johnny-cake, and put one paw behind his ear. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 4 quite quite ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 9 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 _ _ SYM SYM _ 14 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 14 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 15 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 16 punct _ _ 16 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 feeble feeble ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 stretched stretch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 towards towards ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 Johnny Johnny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 36 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 cake cake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 40 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 paw paw NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 behind behind ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **hear** *in a quote* | can | | you | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | future | you | \_ little | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the fox | | | a feeble voice | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **stretch out** | past | fox | fox's neck | | | | towards Johnny cake | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient towards cake=Recipient | | 5 | **put** | infinitive | | one paw | | fox's ear | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent paw=Theme behind ear=Destination | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/67/) - ↑ back to [Lazy Jack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/)