--- title: In a rage, the father caught the warming-pan down from the wall and… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: In a rage, the father caught the warming-pan down from the wall and warmed his son's back with it so that the boy fled howling from the house, and ran and ran till he came to a river and tumbled in. Who acts: father, boy. 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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 (father, boy), 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:pg7439:45:36 # text = In a rage, the father caught the warming-pan down from the wall and warmed his son's back with it so that the boy fled howling from the house, and ran and ran till he came to a river and tumbled in. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 rage rage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 warming warming NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 pan pan NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 down down ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 warmed warm VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 's 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 24 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 28 mark _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fled flee VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 29 howling howl VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 xcomp _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 38 till till SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 ccomp _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 tumbled tumble VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 conj _ _ 46 in in ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **catch** | past | the father | the warming pan | | a rage | | from the wall; down *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent pan=Theme from wall=Source | | 2 | **warm** | past | the father *not said here* | father's son's back | | | | with back | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent back=Patient with it=Instrument | | 3 | **flee** | past | the boy | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **howl** | gerund | the boy *not said here* | | | the house | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **run** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **run** | past | | | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 7 | **come** | past | boy | | | a river | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial\_Location | | 8 | **tumble in** | participle | boy *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/37/) - ↑ back to [The Ass, the Table, and the Stick](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/45/)