English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 64

Johnny-cake stopped his race for the first time, and went a little closer, and called out in a very loud voice _“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, I, fox · What happens: stop, go, call out, outrun, race · To what, where: race, loud voice, old man, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack. 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, I, fox), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cake	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Johnny	punct
3	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 race	nmod:poss
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 time	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
9	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 time	amod
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 went	cc
13	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stopped	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 closer	obl:unmarked
16	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 called	cc
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stopped	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 called	compound:prt
21	in	in	ADP	_	25 voice	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 voice	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 loud	advmod
24	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 voice	amod
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obl
26	_	_	PUNCT	_	19 called	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 outrun	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 outrun	nsubj
29	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 outrun	aux
30	outrun	outrun	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 stopped	conj
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 man	det
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 man	amod
33	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 outrun	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 woman	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 woman	cc
36	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 woman	det
37	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 woman	amod
38	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 outrun	advcl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 boy	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 boy	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 boy	det
42	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 boy	amod
43	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 outrun	obl:agent
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 diggers	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 diggers	cc
46	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 diggers	nummod
47	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	46 two	advmod
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 well	punct
49	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 diggers	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 diggers	cc
52	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	55 diggers	nummod
53	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 diggers	compound
54	-	-	PUNCT	_	53 ditch	punct
55	diggers	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stopped	obl
56	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 bear	punct
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 bear	cc
58	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 bear	det
59	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 wolf	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 wolf	cc
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 wolf	det
63	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stopped	conj
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 outrun	punct
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 outrun	cc
66	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	68 outrun	nsubj
67	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	68 outrun	aux
68	outrun	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 stopped	conj
69	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	68 outrun	obj
70	too	too	ADV	_	68 outrun	advmod
71	-	-	PUNCT	_	70 too	punct
72	o	of	ADP	Abbr=Yes	74 o	case
73	-	-	PUNCT	_	72 o	punct
74	o	o	INTJ	_	68 outrun	discourse
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct
76	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	Johnny cake	fox's race		time	two diggers obl; two ditch diggers obl	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality race=Eventuality
2	go	past	Johnny cake not said here				close property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	call out speech: assert	participle			a loud voice			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	outrun in a quote	present · perfect	I	a old man				tree rules
5	outrun in a quote	can	I	you				tree rules
6	race		fox					nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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.

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