--- title: Off they set again, and just as the shadows of the trees were three… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Off they set again, and just as the shadows of the trees were three times as long as themselves, they heard a great cackling in a field inside the road, and out over the ditch jumped a fox with a fine black cock in his mouth. Who acts: tops, shadows, ditch. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Jose --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/32/) [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/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/) / [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/) / 32 # Celtic Fairy Tales, Jack and His Comrades, sentence 32 Off they set again, and just as the shadows of the trees were three times as long as themselves, they heard a great cackling in a field inside the road, and out over the ditch jumped a fox with a fine black cock in his mouth. **Who acts:** tops, shadows, ditch · **What happens:** set, be, hear, jump, shadow · **To what, where:** great cackling, field, fox, trees This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Comrades. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tops, shadows, ditch), 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:pg7885:18:32 # text = Off they set again, and just as the shadows of the trees were three times as long as themselves, they heard a great cackling in a field inside the road, and out over the ditch jumped a fox with a fine black cock in his mouth. 1 Off off ADP IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 again again ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 just just ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 8 as as ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 shadows shadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 14 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl _ _ 15 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl:unmarked _ _ 17 as as ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 14 advmod _ _ 19 as as ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 cackling cackling NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 30 inside inside ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 out out ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 over over ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ditch ditch NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 44 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 45 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 amod _ _ 46 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 47 in in ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | present | tops *= top* | | | | again | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **be** | past | the shadows of the trees *not said here* | | | | time | long *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | past | tops *= top* | a great cackling | | a field inside the road | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cackling=Stimulus | | 4 | **jump** | past | the ditch | a fox | | | | with a fine black cock in ditch's mouth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Agent | | 5 | **shadow** | | | the trees | | | | | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/33/) - ↑ back to [Jack and His Comrades](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7885/18/)