English Fairy Tales, Lazy Jack, sentence 67

Johnny-cake came up close, and leaning towards the fox screamed out: 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, leaning, I · What happens: come up, lean, scream out, have, outrun · To what, where: OLD WOMAN, OUTRUN, 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, leaning, I), 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 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	6 close	advmod
6	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 screamed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 screamed	cc
9	leaning	lean	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 screamed	csubj
10	towards	towards	ADP	_	12 fox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fox	det
12	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leaning	obl
13	screamed	scream	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 screamed	compound:prt
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 'VE	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 'VE	nsubj
17	'VE	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 came	parataxis
18	OUTRUN	OUTRUN	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 'VE	obj
19	AN	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 MAN	det
20	OLD	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 MAN	amod
21	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 'VE	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 WOMAN	punct
23	AND	and	CCONJ	_	26 WOMAN	cc
24	AN	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 WOMAN	det
25	OLD	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 WOMAN	amod
26	WOMAN	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 BOY	punct
28	AND	and	CCONJ	_	31 BOY	cc
29	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 BOY	det
30	LITTLE	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 BOY	amod
31	BOY	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	parataxis
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 DIGGERS	punct
33	AND	and	CCONJ	_	37 DIGGERS	cc
34	TWO	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 DIGGERS	nummod
35	WELL	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 TWO	advmod
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 WELL	punct
37	DIGGERS	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 DIGGERS	punct
39	AND	and	CCONJ	_	43 DIGGERS	cc
40	TWO	two	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 DIGGERS	det
41	DITCH	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 DIGGERS	compound
42	-	-	PUNCT	_	41 DITCH	punct
43	DIGGERS	digger	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 came	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 BEAR	punct
45	AND	and	CCONJ	_	47 BEAR	cc
46	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 BEAR	det
47	BEAR	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 WOLF	punct
49	AND	and	CCONJ	_	51 WOLF	cc
50	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	51 WOLF	det
51	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 OUTRUN	punct
53	AND	and	CCONJ	_	56 OUTRUN	cc
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 OUTRUN	nsubj
55	CAN	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	56 OUTRUN	aux
56	OUTRUN	outrun	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
57	YOU	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	56 OUTRUN	obj
58	TOO	to	ADP	_	60 O	case
59	-	-	PUNCT	_	58 TOO	punct
60	O	O	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 OUTRUN	obj
61	-	-	PUNCT	_	62 O	punct
62	O	o	INTJ	_	60 O	discourse
63	!	!	PUNCT	_	62 O	punct
64	”	"	PUNCT	_	56 OUTRUN	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	Johnny cake	a OLD WOMAN	TWO DIGGERS obl; two DITCH DIGGERS obl; a BEAR obl; a WOLF obl; close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lean	gerund			towards the fox	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	scream out speech: express	past	leaning			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	have	present	I	OUTRUN		tree rules
5	outrun	can	I	YOU		tree rules

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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