--- title: Now all this while the ball had been rolling, rolling, rolling to th… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now all this while the ball had been rolling, rolling, rolling to the old grandmother’s hut on the other side of the world, and directly it rolled into her hut she knew that her grandson must be dead. Who acts: ball, wife, grandson. 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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 (ball, wife, grandson), 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:pg3282:8:39 # text = Now all this while the ball had been rolling, rolling, rolling to the old grandmother’s hut on the other side of the world, and directly it rolled into her hut she knew that her grandson must be dead. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 2 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 3 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 1 obl _ _ 4 while while SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 7 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 aux _ _ 9 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 1 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 rolling roll VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 directly directly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 rolled roll VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 knew know VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 acl:relcl _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 38 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 grandson grandson NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 40 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 cop _ _ 42 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | past · perfect · progressive | the ball | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **roll** | gerund | the ball *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **roll** | gerund | the ball *not said here* | | | the other side of the world | | to the old grandmother's hut | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to hut=Trajectory | | 4 | **roll** | past | ball | | | wife's hut | now | directly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=Destination | | 5 | **know** | past | wife | wife's hut *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer hut=Stimulus | | 6 | **is** | must | wife's grandson | | | | | dead *property* | tree rules | 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/40/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/8/)