--- title: He had hardly settled himself when the servant entered the room, and… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He had hardly settled himself when the servant entered the room, and, as she did so, the last bag of gold on the beam fell to the ground—for they had begun to fall directly the boy had taken the first one. Who acts: door, servant, beams. 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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 (door, servant, beams), 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:pg3282:7:28 # text = He had hardly settled himself when the servant entered the room, and, as she did so, the last bag of gold on the beam fell to the ground—for they had begun to fall directly the boy had taken the first one. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 hardly hardly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 settled settle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 28 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 parataxis _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 — - PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 begun begin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 directly directly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj:pass _ _ 42 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 advcl _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 46 amod _ _ 46 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **settle** | past · perfect | door | door | | | | hardly *property* | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme himself=Location | | 2 | **enter** | past | the servant | the room | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination | | 3 | **do** | past | servant | the last bag of gold | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fall** | past | | | | the beam | | to the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on beam=Location | | 5 | **begin** | past · perfect | beams *= beam* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **fall** | to-infinitive | beams *= beam* *not said here* | | | | | directly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **take** | past · perfect · passive | | the boy | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme one=Destination | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/29/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/7/)