--- title: She turned to him a hundred hearts, took his hand and seated him bes… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: She turned to him a hundred hearts, took his hand and seated him beside her, and said: “O youth! tell me truly who you are and where you come from, and how you fell into the power of my sister.” Who acts: spite, youth, you. 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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 (spite, youth, you), 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:pg3282:3:78 # text = She turned to him a hundred hearts, took his hand and seated him beside her, and said: “O youth! tell me truly who you are and where you come from, and how you fell into the power of my sister.” 1 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 14 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ _ 15 beside beside ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 21 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 O o INTJ UH _ 23 discourse _ _ 23 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 iobj _ _ 27 truly truly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 who who PRON WP PronType=Int 25 ccomp _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 34 advmod _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 advcl _ _ 41 into into ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | spite | a hundred hearts | Venus | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to he=Result | | 2 | **take** | past | | Venus's hand | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | | 3 | **seat** | past | | Venus | | | | beside spite | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Value | | 4 | **say** *speech: express* | past | spite *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | youth | | spite | | | truly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **come** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **fall** *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | into the power of my sister *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into power=Result | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/79/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/3/)