--- title: After Ian, the fisher’s son, had eaten all he wanted, he hid himself… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After Ian, the fisher’s son, had eaten all he wanted, he hid himself behind a great cask, and very soon he heard a noise, as of men coming through the heather, and the small twigs snapping under their feet. Who acts: son, men, small twigs. 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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 (son, men, small twigs), 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:pg3454:16:78 # text = After Ian, the fisher’s son, had eaten all he wanted, he hid himself behind a great cask, and very soon he heard a noise, as of men coming through the heather, and the small twigs snapping under their feet. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Ian Ian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 10 obj _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 wanted want VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 hid hide VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 16 obj _ _ 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 very very ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 33 case _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 34 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 33 acl _ _ 35 through through ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 heather heather NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 twigs twig NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 43 snapping snap VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 42 acl _ _ 44 under under ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | | all | | | after Ian | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient | | 2 | **want** | past | son | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **hide** | past | son | son | | a great cask | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient behind cask=Location | | 4 | **hear** | past | son | a noise | | | | the small twigs *obl*; soon *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **come** | gerund | men *not said here* | | | the heather | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through heather=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **snap** | gerund | the small twigs *not said here* | | | men's feet | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under foot=Location | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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/pg3454/16/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/16/79/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/16/)