--- title: ‘Why, it must have got its feet loose, and have strayed after all,’… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Why, it must have got its feet loose, and have strayed after all,’ thought the man; and he put the kid on the grass and hurried off in the direction of the bleating. Who acts: kid, man. 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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 (kid, man), 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:pg3454:2:40 # text = ‘Why, it must have got its feet loose, and have strayed after all,’ thought the man; and he put the kid on the grass and hurried off in the direction of the bleating. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 aux _ _ 7 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 8 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 13 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 strayed stray VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 conj _ _ 15 after after ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ 19 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 kid kid NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 hurried hurry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 33 off off ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 direction direction NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 bleating bleating NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | must · perfect | kid | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **stray** | present · perfect | kid *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | kid *not said here* | the man | | | after all | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | | 4 | **put** | past | man | the kid | | the grass | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme on grass=Destination | | 5 | **hurry off** | participle | man *not said here* | | | the direction of the bleating | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in direction=Trajectory | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/41/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/2/)