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title: And, as he stood, soldiers came and laid hands on him, and led him u… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And, as he stood, soldiers came and laid hands on him, and led him up to the cask, where a big fire was blazing, and the horrid black pitch boiling and bubbling over the sides. Who acts: boy, soldiers, big fire. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, with
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 80

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And, as he stood, soldiers came and laid hands on him, and led him up to the cask, where a big fire was blazing, and the horrid black pitch boiling and bubbling over the sides.

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**Who acts:** boy, soldiers, big fire · **What happens:** stand, come, lay, lead up, blaze, bubble · **To what, where:** horrid black pitch boiling, hands, boy, sides

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, soldiers, big fire), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3282:23:80
# text = And, as he stood, soldiers came and laid hands on him, and led him up to the cask, where a big fire was blazing, and the horrid black pitch boiling and bubbling over the sides.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	cask	cask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	28	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	horrid	horrid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
33	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	boiling	boiling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	bubbling	bubble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
38	over	over	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | boy | the horrid black pitch boiling |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | soldiers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past | soldiers *not said here* | hands |  |  |  | on boy | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on he=Destination |
| 4 | **lead up** | past | boy *not said here* | boy |  |  |  | to the cask | tree rules |
| 5 | **blaze** | past · progressive | a big fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **bubble** | gerund | boy *not said here* |  |  | the sides |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over side=Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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