English Subject #16


@begin
@participants: s16 subject16 narrator
@id: eng.pinc.engsubj16.0000.s16
@language: english
@sex of s16: female
@transcriber: Karen Duvall
@location: tape5 side1 number1

  1. *s16: there's a picture of a messy living room.
  2. *s16: there's a fish in a bowl.
  3. *s16: he's talking.
  4. *s16: I don't know what's he's saying.
  5. *s16: the girl is looking, [*], she looks to the boy.
    %err: he looks = she looks $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.405 ok checked (in database the first "looking" is transcribed as "talking"- it should be looking)
  6. *s16: there's a +...
  7. *s16: oh [!!!], there's what's his name.
  8. *s16: he's walking past, oh character from # ah
    @fp doctor seuss.
  9. *s16: he looks pretty discouraged or down or depressed.
  10. *s16: he looks real sad.
  11. *s16: he pulls the hat up, all the way over his head.
  12. *s16: and he's # putting his arms up in air.
  13. *s16: it's kind of a yellow wall, red carpeting.
  14. *s16: oh, [!!!] now [*].
    %err: = [?] ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.406 ok checked
  15. *s16: oh, now he sticks his arms through the hat and starts waving around.
  16. *s16: and he kind of looks like an animated hat, which just now turned into a snake and continues, crawling along.
  17. *s16: and, at the end of the hat the brim, his head just pops out of the brim, from this long snakelike hat.
  18. *s16: and now his hands are out there.
  19. *s16: and he picks up another piece of this elongated hat.
  20. *s16: and he puts it around his # head and neck.
  21. *s16: and he's singing or saying something, but by the looks on his face, he's till not too happy.
  22. *s16: and this hat, which turned into a long snake just went all under the hat again.
  23. *s16: it's very odd how it keeps getting shorter then longer, then shorter.
  24. *s16: now he's back to his normal self.
  25. *s16: the fish is still saying something to him from the bowl.
  26. *s16: the fish doesn't look too happy, either.
  27. *s16: he looks kind of cranky actually.
  28. *s16: he's yelling at him, waving his hand and kind of # doing a fist, if he had a fist ah
    @fp in the air.
  29. *s16: the ah
    @fp, animal guy [=! laughing] comes over to the fish, knocks him on the nose.
  30. *s16: oh, and the animal guy is now smiling, pats the fish on the head.
  31. *s16: and at least he's getting happy.
  32. *s16: now he has an umbrella over his wrist.
  33. *s16: ok, they go over to the piano where the boy and girl are.
  34. *s16: he puts the fish in the fishbowl and carries the bowl over to the piano, puts it on the top of the piano.
  35. *s16: again, he's smiling, talking to the fish.
  36. *s16: the fish still looks pretty ticked off, but the animal creature starts playing the piano an:d smiling and singing.
  37. *s16: and the fish still looks a little bit # disgruntled, yeah, he's tapping his little hand there.
  38. *s16: and the animal figure is continuing to play.
  39. *s16: the fish is pretty ticked off.
  40. *s16: oh, now the animal figure starts kind of like bading him and [/] and teasing him.
  41. *s16: the girl and boy look at each other.
  42. *s16: they're kind of surprised.
  43. *s16: they look they really don't know what's goin(g) on, but at least one of these creatures is having fun.
  44. *s16: so now they're playin(g) piano, continuing +...
  45. *s16: oh, [!!!] all a sudden a little stuffed toy bear is placed on the piano by the tall animal creature.
  46. *s16: the fish is still not impressed, and he's batting his eyes and looking at this goofy creature playin(g) the piano.
  47. *s16: and, let's see.
  48. *s16: I can't see the girl and boy anymore, but he's [//] you know that animal creature still has that big goofy hat on his head.
  49. *s16: there's another scene with the fish, ah
    @fp with the teddy bear resting against his fishbowl.
  50. *s16: the fish now # goes under the water, fold his arms, doesn't want any part of it.
  51. *s16: the animal creature and the boy and girl walk from that living room where the piano was into the kitchen.
  52. *s16: the boy is looking out of this sliding [*] &er um
    @fp, whaddya call that kind of door that # swinging door.
    %err: sliding = swinging $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.407 ok checked
  53. *s16: and he's looking into the living room.
  54. *s16: and the animal creature is in the kitchen and saying something.
  55. *s16: he passes the refrigerator.
  56. *s16: he's sort of pacing the floor.
  57. *s16: oh [!!!], he just got another idea.
  58. *s16: and he took his hat off and low and behold, there's still a hat on his head and another one, identical # to [/] ah
    @fp to the one he's wearing in his hand.
  59. *s16: and out of that hat, he pulled out a little block, which turned into a big [!!!} block kind of like a large chess kind of thing.
  60. *s16: and now he's playing music and singing.
  61. *s16: and the kids are # beboppin(g) their bodies, [//] shaken and movin(g) to the ah
    @fp beat of the music.
  62. *s16: and the animal creature is now laying across the box.
  63. *s16: oh, [!!!] the box opens and two little [/] hairy little animal creatures come running out, race to the kitchen, go through the swinging door, go into the living room, get the fish in the bowl, put it on top of a stick, swirl it around.
  64. *s16: and it's all topsy-turvy.
  65. *s16: and they throw it up in the air.
  66. *s16: and the boy rescues by coming in to catch the fishbowl.
    %comment: ctc E.16.408 ok checked
  67. *s16: and those two little hairy animal creatures are doing cartwheels.
  68. *s16: the fish somehow gets out of the bowl.
  69. *s16: now he's +...
  70. *s16: the telephone, he's actually dialing the telephone.
  71. *s16: he's probably calling the rescue squad or something like that.
  72. *s16: um
    @fp, so now he's really barkin(g) up a storm on this telephone.
  73. *s16: and the boy is looking dismayed, still holding the bowl.
  74. *s16: and the fish was now [!!!] banging on the receiver of the phone.
  75. *s16: &n kind of looks like he's &op +...
  76. *s16: something popped out of the receiver of the phone.
  77. *s16: one of those little, hairy animal creatures.
  78. *s16: the fish gets very frightened, jumps back into his bowl, under the water.
  79. *s16: and one of those # little hairy creatures takes it and # swings it like a bowling ball.
  80. *s16: all of a sudden, there's # bowling pins set-up in the living room.
  81. *s16: but instead of hitting the pins, the ball diverts # and kind of bypasses the pins,
  82. *s16: now all of a sudden the animal creature, these two little animal creatures are really trouble makers.
  83. *s16: they get a big string, wrap it around the ball and now they're flying the fishbowl through the air on the string, as like in a kite.
  84. *s16: through the living room and it's going to hit the door frame, but the boy jumps up and again saves the fishbowl from crashing all over.
  85. *s16: and now they're in the kitchen.
  86. *s16: and now one of those ah
    @fp devious little animal creatures.
  87. *s16: one is on top of the refrigerator.
  88. *s16: one is down on the floor, grabs the fishbowl from the boy.
  89. *s16: and now they look like they're gonna punt-pass as in football.
  90. *s16: and this fish is really getting traumatized.
  91. *s16: ok, so now they pass it and one of those little animal creatures starts running and it goes right down those basement stairs.
  92. *s16: and you don't see anything.
  93. *s16: there's just focus on the steps.
  94. *s16: oh, now comes up from the basement with a hockey stick with two.
  95. *s16: and the two of those little animal creatures are playing hockey with the fishbowl, with the fish inside.
  96. *s16: the boy and girl are really frantic, they really seem to be for this poor little fish, but they just cant quite get a grip on the fish and keep it.
    %err: an advocate = advocates ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.409 ok checked
  97. *s16: oh, [!!!] the boy again rescues the bowl, and the flying water, and the fish once again.
  98. *s16: so now the fishbowl is flying um
    @fp, on the floor, through the different rooms.
  99. *s16: and is in the living room now, sort of like where he started.
  100. *s16: oh, he gets up.
  101. *s16: he walks.
  102. *s16: he goes to the original, tall animal creature, kicks the umbrella that he was holding and kind of leaning his weight on.
  103. *s16: and thee animal creature falls down on his face.
  104. *s16: and the fish is giving him hell.
  105. *s16: um
    @fp, # and the animal creature looks like he's trying to plead mercy and now he's smiling and begging him.
  106. *s16: and the fish is just screaming and ranting and raving at him.
  107. *s16: and then the fish jumps back somewhere, oop, into the bowl.
  108. *s16: and the large animal creature is just kind of watching him.
  109. *s16: and they're # pulling back, [//] back and forth.
  110. *s16: the [/] the fish is still pretty upset.
  111. *s16: and the large animal creature is sort of listening, picks up the bowl, looks at the fish, carries the bowl.
  112. *s16: not to the piano, but to this credenza type of piece of furniture near a window.
  113. *s16: and the fish is still talking some more.
  114. *s16: the large creature sets his umbrella down on the edge of the credenza.
  115. *s16: and the girl is back in the picture.
  116. *s16: she's smiling, and she's kind of observing all of this.
  117. *s16: the large animal creature is tapping his hat.
  118. *s16: and then he's doing a little dance. * s16: and the fish is still looking, [//] still kind of looking angry.
  119. *s16: thee large animal creature takes off that big tall top hat.
  120. *s16: and after he takes it off, there's a # like a smaller, flatter hat on his head.
  121. *s16: those two hairy, devious creatures are now into like little ballerinas' suits [//] suit tutus.
  122. *s16: and they just do like little cancan number.
  123. *s16: they bent over.
  124. *s16: their butts # were to the screen.
  125. *s16: and now, the big animal creature, his hat turns into a big mexican sombrero.
  126. *s16: throws it to the boy.
  127. *s16: the boy and the girl are doing this little mexican hat dance thing.
  128. *s16: and they look like they're having fun.
  129. *s16: and, oh, now there's two sombreros in the picture and the large animal creature is dancing around it, while there's still a hat on his head.
    %comment: ctc E.16.410 ok checked
  130. *s16: he's looking both ways.
  131. *s16: he picks off the sombrero and we're back to the original, very tall striped # ah
    @fp hat.
  132. *s16: yeah, I think I forgot to tell you it was striped.
  133. *s16: ok, now we're back to a sombrero hat.
  134. *s16: these just keep changing.
  135. *s16: now back to &n sma:ller ah
    @fp kind of hat.
  136. *s16: I don't know really a whole lot of names of hats.
  137. *s16: and he's back to the piano, playing.
  138. *s16: the girl and boy are again in the picture watching.
  139. *s16: oh, they're singing now.
  140. *s16: the girl has a bow in her hair.
  141. *s16: and # thee large animal creature is still playing the piano.
  142. *s16: and those litt:le hairy creatures are back.
  143. *s16: oh, now they're doing little ah
    @fp dance number.
  144. *s16: they do everything kind of symmetrical in [/] in this little thing.
  145. *s16: um
    @fp, an:d the large animal creature is now banging on the keys.
  146. *s16: and there's notes kind of coming out of the air and indicated music.
  147. *s16: and the background is changing from yellow to red. s16: and different notes come out and they light up the whole background, so the red note comes out and it floods the [*] # the background with the color of the musical note.
    %err: back screen = background ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.411 ok checked
  148. *s16: so now we're back to the fish.
  149. *s16: he's still barkin(g) in his bowl.
  150. *s16: and the large animal creature # is now in this like eskimo suit, real fur:ry coat with a hat.
  151. *s16: and thee, his two little sidekicks are in identical ah
    @fp outfits.
  152. *s16: and now they're now in a mountainous area with snow, with on a sleigh um
    @fp whaddya call that # a dog sled kind of thing with two dogs pulling it.
    %comment: ctc E.16.412 ok checked
  153. *s16: we're back to thee # fish.
  154. *s16: he's still tryin(g) to explain himself.
  155. *s16: oh, now he's putting on miniature versions of all theses little hats, the sombrero, the tall striped top hat, the # little hat with the feather in it.
  156. *s16: um
    @fp, and the eskimo hat and suit.
  157. *s16: and he's singing, ah
    @fp still from his fishbowl in the water.
  158. *s16: now he's back to plain old fish self.
  159. *s16: no hats, no coats. s16: now he puts on another hat, still stripe [*] but not as tall as the original tall ah
    @fp hat.
    %err: stripe = striped [?]
    %comment: ctc E.16.413 ok checked
  160. *s16: he gets out of the bowl.
  161. *s16: he starts dancing around, jumps back in, big splash from the water in the bowl.
  162. *s16: and the tall animal creature is looking at him.
  163. *s16: and there he, they look like hey they're finally having a nice dialog, first time they're both smiling.
  164. *s16: thee tall animal creatu:re is saying some more things to the fi:sh.
  165. *s16: and he's kind of doing a little # sachet little number here.
  166. *s16: ah
    @fp, the fish is enjoying it.
  167. *s16: he's smiling.
  168. *s16: he's also keeping time to the music, with his body posture.
  169. *s16: and the animal creature's now doing like russian kind of dance kicks.
  170. *s16: and, oh, he's getting carried away.
  171. *s16: he starts flying across the living room, through a # opening.
    %comment: ctc E.16.414 ok checked
  172. *s16: we're not sure where it is.
  173. *s16: and he seems to get thrown back into the room by something unknown.
  174. *s16: and he pulls the hat over his head.
  175. *s16: and it changes scenery.
  176. *s16: and now we got those two little creatures with kind of oriental um
    @fp hats, scottish.
  177. *s16: it keeps changing.
  178. *s16: the girl and boy have a scottish kilt.
  179. *s16: there's a um
    @fp, what do you call that thing.
  180. *s16: bagpipe player, the large animal creature's doing that.
  181. *s16: the &ch [*] scenes are changing very rapidly.
    %err: &ch = scenes $cor ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.415 ok checked
  182. *s16: there's now thee animal # [//] tall animal is skiing up and down these slopes, which are striped, just like the original hat.
  183. *s16: saint patrick's day hat, the little shamrock, the little cane.
  184. *s16: now another kind of hat.
  185. *s16: oh, there's the girl.
  186. *s16: she's wondering what's going on in here.
  187. *s16: and a real close-up of thee animal's face.
  188. *s16: ah
    @fp, and then all these hats, all different styles, but the same red and white stripe as the original hat keep # piling up in the screen.
  189. *s16: and now it's a scene of all these hats flying down onto the floor.
  190. *s16: the little animal creatures are dancing.
  191. *s16: everyone's dancing, change back to another scene.
  192. *s16: there's # ah
    @fp, some # animal &d I can't even identify what kind of creature it is.
  193. *s16: oh, now the big animal creature is the stature of liberty that's gone.
  194. *s16: now, there's the boy, the girl, the fish is still in the bowl.
  195. *s16: the &lil, the two little # hairy guys are back in the box.
  196. *s16: the box shrinks, it's gone.
  197. *s16: the original animal creature, with his umbrella on his wrist is back to his ah
    @fp, ah
    @fp # regular animal looking self, with his original top hat walks out.
  198. *s16: and everything in the background is striped and checked the same two colors [//] red and white all over.
  199. *s16: there's hats strewn all over the floor in this room.
  200. *s16: an:d this # a vehicle looking like a helicopter as all these receptacles to cleanup, and there's a moving broom at the front of this helicopter type thing.
  201. *s16: and it's being operated by the original animal creature.
  202. *s16: and he's cleaning up all the hats and all the stuff in the room.
  203. *s16: and he precedes towards the wall, he dusts off a picture and an apple and a lamp.
  204. *s16: and the boy is also helping.
  205. *s16: he's throwing toys and things back into the closet.
  206. *s16: the girl is picking up things, putting them in the drawers.
  207. *s16: and the vehicle +...
  208. *s16: oh, just sweeped some junk under the rug.
  209. *s16: and the fish in the fishbowl is screaming about something.
  210. *s16: and these two arms from this um
    @fp motorized cleaner-upper thing take the two children by their [*].
    %err: back clothing = shirt backs [?] ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.416 ok checked
  211. *s16: and then put them in a chair.
  212. *s16: ah
    @fp, the arms on this machine are really going to town, cleaning pictures on the wall.
  213. *s16: ah
    @fp, going through the room.
  214. *s16: it looks pretty orderly now.
  215. *s16: there's no more junk.
  216. *s16: all of a sudden all the arms and all the receptacles fold up into this helicopter type of thing.
  217. *s16: and he's preceding to leave the room.
  218. *s16: the fish # is trying to tell him something.
  219. *s16: and this animal creature isn't looking ahead of him.
  220. *s16: and he exits.
  221. *s16: oh, he gets through the door ok.
  222. *s16: and the door closes.
  223. *s16: so now the fish goes back under the water.
  224. *s16: the boy and girl are &s still sitting in the chairs, where they were dumped.
  225. *s16: looking out the window.
  226. *s16: and the fish i:s # on that credenza, in front of a window just looking at the bowl.
  227. *s16: kind of sunken under the water, has big surprised eyes.
  228. *s16: jumps out # but not all the way out of the water.
  229. *s16: [*].
    %err: = [?] ;
    %comment: ctc E.16.417 ok checked
  230. *s16: and then you seen the girl and the boy &l, looking out of the window.
  231. *s16: they're facing us.
  232. *s16: and they look kind of bored, and forlorn, as if their big, fun time is over.
  233. *s16: and the animal creature, you see him [//] walking down the sidewalk, just the tip of his hat.
  234. *s16: the end.
  235. *s16: holy moses.
    @end

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