--- title: The miser hung his head, and grieved to lose his gold; but the peopl… — Fifty Famous Stories Retold · tree and pragmatics description: The miser hung his head, and grieved to lose his gold; but the people shouted with joy, and the horse was led away to his new stall and a dinner such as he had not had in many a day. Who acts: miser, people, horse. A sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri., with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/87/) [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/) / [Fifty Famous Stories Retold](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/) / [The Bell of Atri.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/) / 87 # Fifty Famous Stories Retold, The Bell of Atri., sentence 87 The miser hung his head, and grieved to lose his gold; but the people shouted with joy, and the horse was led away to his new stall and a dinner such as he had not had in many a day. **Who acts:** miser, people, horse · **What happens:** hang, grieve, lose, shout, lead away, not have · **To what, where:** head, gold, horse, new stall This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, The Bell of Atri.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (miser, people, horse), 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:pg18442:25:87 # text = The miser hung his head, and grieved to lose his gold; but the people shouted with joy, and the horse was led away to his new stall and a dinner such as he had not had in many a day. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 miser miser NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 grieved grieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ; ; PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 18 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 led lead VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 26 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stall stall NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 34 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=SCONJ 39 mark _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 39 had have VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 acl _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hang** | past | the miser | horse's head | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 2 | **grieve** | participle | the miser *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lose** | to-infinitive | the miser *not said here* | horse's gold | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality | | 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the people | | | | | with joy | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **lead away** | past · passive | | the horse | | horse's new stall and a dinner | | away *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to stall=Destination | | 6 | **not** **have** | past · perfect | horse | horse's new stall and a dinner *not said here* | | | day | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stall=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:** «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/86/) - next →: [How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/26/1/) - ↑ back to [The Bell of Atri.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg18442/25/)