--- title: The herdboy pulled out his pipe and played a low sweet tune, and the… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The herdboy pulled out his pipe and played a low sweet tune, and the stranger looked again and again at Tattercoats' lovely face till he fell deeply in love with her, and begged her to marry him. Who acts: herdboy, stranger. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herdboy, stranger), 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:pg14241:21:1 # text = The herdboy pulled out his pipe and played a low sweet tune, and the stranger looked again and again at Tattercoats' lovely face till he fell deeply in love with her, and begged her to marry him. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 herdboy herdboy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pulled pull VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 pipe pipe NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tune tune NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 again again ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 again again ADV RB _ 18 conj _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 22 Tattercoats tattercoat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ' 's PART POS _ 22 case _ _ 24 lovely lovely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 26 till till SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 advcl _ _ 29 deeply deeply ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pull out** | past | the herdboy | herdboy's pipe | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **play** | past | the herdboy *not said here* | a low sweet tune | | | | | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme | | 3 | **look** | past | the stranger | | | | again | at Tattercoats's lovely face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at face=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | past | stranger | | | love | | with her *= she*; deeply *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location | | 5 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | the herdboy *not said here* | | her *= she* | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the herdboy *not said here* | stranger | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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: [More English Fairy Tales, pa…, 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/20/102/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/2/) - ↑ back to [More English Fairy Tales, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg14241/21/)