--- title: So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listen… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listening to his cries and entreaties, hurried him down to the river bank and flung him--plop!--into the deepest, weediest, and nastiest place they could find. Who acts: villagers, nastiest place, man. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/99/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/) / 99 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 11, sentence 99 So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listening to his cries and entreaties, hurried him down to the river bank and flung him--plop!--into the deepest, weediest, and nastiest place they could find. **Who acts:** villagers, nastiest place, man · **What happens:** rush, seize, listen, hurry down, fling, find · **To what, where:** unhappy man, man, river bank, plop This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (villagers, nastiest place, man), 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:pg3027:11:99 # text = So off they rushed home, seized the unhappy man, and, without listening to his cries and entreaties, hurried him down to the river bank and flung him--plop!--into the deepest, weediest, and nastiest place they could find. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 off off ADP IN _ 4 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rushed rush VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 home home ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 7 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 without without SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ _ 15 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 entreaties entreaty NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 22 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 down down ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 flung fling VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 plop plop NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 into into ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 30 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 weediest weedy ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 38 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 43 nastiest nasty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 44 amod _ _ 44 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 46 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 47 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rush** | past | villagers *= villager* | | | | | home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **seize** | past | villagers *= villager* *not said here* | the unhappy man | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | | 3 | **listen** | gerund | | | | | | to man's cries and entreaties | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to cry=Theme | | 4 | **hurry down** | past | villagers *= villager* *not said here* | man | | the river bank | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme to bank=Trajectory | | 5 | **fling** | past | villagers *= villager* *not said here* | plop | man | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination plop=Theme | | 6 | **find** | could | nastiest place | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cry** | | man | | | | | | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/100/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/11/)