--- title: This time the young man was wiser, and though the basket often stopp… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This time the young man was wiser, and though the basket often stopped, and strange creatures seemed to rest on him and to pluck at his blanket, he held it tight till he heard the crow calling. Who acts: time, strange creatures, man, crow. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Openin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/52/) [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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/) / 52 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 52 This time the young man was wiser, and though the basket often stopped, and strange creatures seemed to rest on him and to pluck at his blanket, he held it tight till he heard the crow calling. **Who acts:** time, strange creatures, man, crow · **What happens:** be, stop, seem, rest, pluck, hold · **To what, where:** blanket, basket, crow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, strange creatures, man, crow), 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:pg3027:35:52 # text = This time the young man was wiser, and though the basket often stopped, and strange creatures seemed to rest on him and to pluck at his blanket, he held it tight till he heard the crow calling. 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 7 wiser wise ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 though though ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 13 often often ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 creatures creature NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj _ _ 19 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 22 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 blanket blanket NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 tight tight ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 35 till till SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 36 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 crow crow NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ _ 40 calling call VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | this time | | | | | wise *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **stop** | past | this time *not said here* | | | | | though the basket; often *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **seem** | past | strange creatures | | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 4 | **rest** | to-infinitive | strange creatures *not said here* | | | | | on man | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on he=Location | | 5 | **pluck** | to-infinitive | strange creatures *not said here* | | | man's blanket | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at blanket=Source | | 6 | **hold** | past | man | basket | | | | tight *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **hear** | past | man | the crow | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer crow=Stimulus | | 8 | **call** | gerund | the crow *not said here* | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/53/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/35/)