--- title: But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neith… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neither he nor the tree was to be seen, for the little fellow had pulled it up by the roots and run away, dragging it after him. Who acts: creatures, Paul, roots. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy B --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/57/) [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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/) / 57 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 57 But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neither he nor the tree was to be seen, for the little fellow had pulled it up by the roots and run away, dragging it after him. **Who acts:** creatures, Paul, roots · **What happens:** reach, leave, see, pull up, run away, drag · **To what, where:** place, dwarf, Paul, little fellow This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, Paul, roots), 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:pg2435:31:57 # text = But when they reached the place where Paul had left the dwarf, neither he nor the tree was to be seen, for the little fellow had pulled it up by the roots and run away, dragging it after him. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 14 neither neither CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 22 cc:preconj _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 16 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 18 cc _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 aux:pass _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 21 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj:pass _ _ 28 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 29 compound:prt _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ _ 37 away away ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 dragging drag VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 after after ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | creatures *= creature* | the place | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | Paul | the dwarf | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dwarf=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past · passive | | Paul | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | | 4 | **pull up** | past · perfect · passive | the roots | the little fellow | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent subject=Theme it=Result | | 5 | **run away** | present | the roots *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **drag** | gerund | the roots *not said here* | place | | | after Paul | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/58/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/31/)