--- title: Poor Dick ran till he was tired, and had quite forgot his friend the… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Poor Dick ran till he was tired, and had quite forgot his friend the waggoner; but at last, finding it grow dark, and that every way he turned he saw nothing but dirt instead of gold, he, sat down in a dark corner and cried himself to sleep. Who acts: Poor Dick, Dick, friend. 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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 (Poor Dick, Dick, friend), 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:pg7439:37:8 # text = Poor Dick ran till he was tired, and had quite forgot his friend the waggoner; but at last, finding it grow dark, and that every way he turned he saw nothing but dirt instead of gold, he, sat down in a dark corner and cried himself to sleep. 1 Poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 Dick Dick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 till till SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 11 quite quite ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 forgot forget VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 waggoner waggoner NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 finding find VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 28 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 34 obj _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 dirt dirt NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 40 case _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 38 fixed _ _ 40 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ _ 45 down down ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 52 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 51 obj _ _ 53 to to PART TO _ 54 mark _ _ 54 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 51 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | Poor Dick | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | Dick | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | past | Poor Dick *not said here* | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **forget** | past | Poor Dick *not said here* | Dick's friend | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **find** | gerund | Poor Dick *not said here* | friend | | last | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute clause=Theme | | 6 | **grow** | infinitive | friend *not said here* | | | | | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **turn** | past | Dick | that way *not said here* | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | | 8 | **see** | past | Dick | that way | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | | 9 | **sit down** | past | Dick | | | a dark corner | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | | 10 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Dick *not said here* | Dick | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | | 11 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | Dick *not said here* | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/9/) - ↑ back to [Whittington and His Cat](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/37/)