--- title: When they got there they found to what a dreadful place they had com… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When they got there they found to what a dreadful place they had come, and, falling on their knees, they offered him great sums of money, if he would only spare their lives. Who acts: men, place. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/72/) [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/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/) / 72 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 72 When they got there they found to what a dreadful place they had come, and, falling on their knees, they offered him great sums of money, if he would only spare their lives. **Who acts:** men, place · **What happens:** get, find, come, fall, offer, spare · **To what, where:** dreadful place, knees, great sums, place, lives, money This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, place), 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:pg2435:12:72 # text = When they got there they found to what a dreadful place they had come, and, falling on their knees, they offered him great sums of money, if he would only spare their lives. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 advcl _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 6 obj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 12 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 falling fall VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 19 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 offered offer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 iobj _ _ 26 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 sums sum NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 33 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 34 only only ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 36 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | men *= man* | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **find** | past | men *= man* | | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **come** | past · perfect | men *= man* | a dreadful place *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | gerund | men *= man* *not said here* | | | men's knees | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on knee=Location | | 5 | **offer** | past | men *= man* | great sums of money | place | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sum=Theme | | 6 | **spare** *a condition, not said to happen* | would | place | men's lives | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | | 7 | **sum** | | | money | | | | | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/73/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/)