--- title: Johnny-cake came up close, and leaning towards the fox screamed out:… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Johnny-cake came up close, and leaning towards the fox screamed out: 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, leaning, I. 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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 (Johnny cake, leaning, I), 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:pg7439:34:67 # text = Johnny-cake came up close, and leaning towards the fox screamed out: 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 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 6 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 leaning lean VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 csubj _ _ 10 towards towards ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 screamed scream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 'VE have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 OUTRUN OUTRUN PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 19 AN a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 OLD old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 MAN man NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 AND and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 AN a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 OLD old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 WOMAN woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 AND and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 LITTLE little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 BOY boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 AND and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 TWO two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 35 WELL well ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 DIGGERS digger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 39 AND and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 40 TWO two DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 41 DITCH ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 DIGGERS digger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 45 AND and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 46 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 BEAR bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 AND and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 WOLF wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 53 AND and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 54 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 56 nsubj _ _ 55 CAN can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 OUTRUN outrun VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 57 YOU you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 56 obj _ _ 58 TOO to ADP IN _ 60 case _ SpaceAfter=No 59 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 60 O O PROPN NNP Number=Sing 56 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 O o INTJ UH _ 60 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ! ! PUNCT . _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ” " PUNCT '' _ 56 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come up** | past | Johnny cake | a OLD WOMAN | | | | TWO DIGGERS *obl*; two DITCH DIGGERS *obl*; a BEAR *obl*; a WOLF *obl*; close *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lean** | gerund | | | | | | towards the fox | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **scream out** *speech: express* | past | leaning | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **have** | present | I | OUTRUN | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **outrun** | can | I | YOU | | | | | tree rules | 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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/68/) - ↑ back to [Lazy Jack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/34/)