--- title: “A-why,” says he, “I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a p… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “A-why,” says he, “I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I'd never seen before And there was an old chalk-pit. Who acts: I, old chalk pit. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/98/) [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/) / [Tom Tit Tot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/) / 98 # English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 98 “A-why,” says he, “I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I'd never seen before And there was an old chalk-pit. **Who acts:** I, old chalk pit · **What happens:** say, be out, hunt, get away, not see, be · **To what, where:** king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, old chalk pit), 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:pg7439:5:98 # text = “A-why,” says he, “I was out a-hunting to-day, and I got away to a place in the wood I'd never seen before And there was an old chalk-pit. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ SpaceAfter=No 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 hunting hunt VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 24 away away ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 35 before before SCONJ IN _ 34 advmod _ _ 36 And and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 38 expl _ _ 38 was be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 40 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 41 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 pit pit NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | king | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 2 | **be out** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hunt** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | day | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **get away** *in a quote* | past | I | | | | | to a place in the wood; away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | would | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | past | a old chalk pit | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/99/) - ↑ back to [Tom Tit Tot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/)