--- title: The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered, for with one swift, silent stroke of the prince’s sword, his head rolled into a corner. Who acts: man, nearest, captain, head. 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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 (man, nearest, captain, head), 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:pg2435:15:1 # text = The man who stood nearest jumped across, but he had no time to give the call which the captain had ordered, for with one swift, silent stroke of the prince’s sword, his head rolled into a corner. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 nsubj _ _ 6 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 7 across across ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 acl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 call call NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 22 obj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 captain captain NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 ordered order VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 27 nummod _ _ 27 swift swift NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 silent silent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ’s 's PART POS _ 33 case _ _ 35 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 40 into into ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | the man | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **jump** | past | nearest | | | | | across *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | man | | | | time | for one swift and silent stroke of the prince's sword | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **give** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | the call | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | | 5 | **order** | past · perfect | the captain | the call | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 6 | **roll** | past | captain's head | | | a corner | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into corner=Destination | | 7 | **stroke** | | | the prince's sword | | | | | nom stroke «act 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: [The Crimson Fairy Book, part…, 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/14/111/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/2/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/)