--- title: The stag did as he was bid, though, not being used to climbing, it g… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The stag did as he was bid, though, not being used to climbing, it gave him a deal of trouble and sore knees, and besides, his horns were continually getting entangled in the creepers. Who acts: climbing. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/101/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/) / 101 # The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 101 The stag did as he was bid, though, not being used to climbing, it gave him a deal of trouble and sore knees, and besides, his horns were continually getting entangled in the creepers. **Who acts:** climbing · **What happens:** bid, not use, give, beside, entangle, deal · **To what, where:** stag, deal, horns, trouble This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (climbing), 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:pg3282:36:101 # text = The stag did as he was bid, though, not being used to climbing, it gave him a deal of trouble and sore knees, and besides, his horns were continually getting entangled in the creepers. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 stag stag NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 bid bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 though though ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 12 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 climbing climbing NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 iobj _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 deal deal NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 sore sore ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 knees knee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 besides beside VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 continually continually ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 getting get AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 entangled entangle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 29 conj _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 creepers creeper NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bid** | past · passive · do-support | | the stag | | | | though *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **not** **use** | gerund · passive | | | | | | to climbing | vn eat-39.1 «NP V» | | 3 | **give** | past | climbing | a deal of trouble and sore knees | stag | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient deal=Theme | | 4 | **beside** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **entangle** | past · progressive · passive | | stag's horns | | | | in the creepers; continually *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in creeper=Theme | | 6 | **deal** | | | trouble and sore knees | | | | | nom deal «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/102/) - ↑ back to [Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/36/)