--- title: With this he sowed a great field, and sent a vast army of his goblin… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With this he sowed a great field, and sent a vast army of his goblins to watch and tend it, and to bring up the fiery rivers from the heart of the earth near enough to warm and encourage the sprouting seeds. Who acts: gnome. 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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 (gnome), 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:pg3282:31:80 # text = With this he sowed a great field, and sent a vast army of his goblins to watch and tend it, and to bring up the fiery rivers from the heart of the earth near enough to warm and encourage the sprouting seeds. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sowed sow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 goblins goblin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 advcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 tend tend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 conj _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 fiery fiery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 36 near near ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 enough enough ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 38 to to PART TO _ 39 mark _ _ 39 warm warm VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 encourage encourage VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 43 sprouting sprouting NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 seeds seed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sow** | past | gnome | a great field | | | | with this | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Destination with this=Theme | | 2 | **send** | past | gnome *not said here* | a vast army of gnome's goblins | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme | | 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | gnome *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **tend** | infinitive | gnome *not said here* | army | | | | | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **bring up** | to-infinitive | gnome *not said here* | the fiery rivers | | the heart of the earth | | enough *property* | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent river=Patient | | 6 | **warm** | to-infinitive | gnome *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **encourage** | infinitive | gnome *not said here* | the sprouting seeds | | | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/81/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/31/)