--- title: As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he seized a bag full of gold… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he seized a bag full of gold which was hidden among the roots of the tree, lifted it up, and muttered aloud: “Curse these rude wretches, cutting off a piece of my splendid beard!” Who acts: end, Curse. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-wh --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/55/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/) / 55 # The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 55 As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he seized a bag full of gold which was hidden among the roots of the tree, lifted it up, and muttered aloud: “Curse these rude wretches, cutting off a piece of my splendid beard!” **Who acts:** end, Curse · **What happens:** feel, seize, hide, lift up, mutter, wretch · **To what, where:** end, bag, gold, roots, piece · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end, Curse), 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:pg503:36:55 # text = As soon as the dwarf felt himself free he seized a bag full of gold which was hidden among the roots of the tree, lifted it up, and muttered aloud: “Curse these rude wretches, cutting off a piece of my splendid beard!” 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 dwarf dwarf NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 6 felt feel VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 6 obj _ _ 8 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 seized seize VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 hidden hide VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 among among ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 up up ADP RP _ 26 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 muttered mutter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 32 aloud aloud ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 34 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Curse curse NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 37 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 wretches wretch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 40 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 41 off off ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 42 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 44 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 45 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 beard beard NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ! ! PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **feel** | past | | end | | | | as the dwarf; free, soon *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | | 2 | **seize** | past | end | a bag | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | | 3 | **hide** | past · passive | | gold | | the roots of the tree | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient among root=Location | | 4 | **lift up** | past | | bag | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 5 | **mutter** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | aloud *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wretch** *in a quote* | | Curse | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **cut off** *in a quote* | gerund | | a piece of my splendid beard | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector piece=Eventuality | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/56/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/)