--- title: And when they had hauled it up, and had set eyes on the wondrous mai… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when they had hauled it up, and had set eyes on the wondrous maidens, they went aside and said: ‘Let’s lower the rope, pull our brother part of the way up, and then cut the rope. Who acts: brothers, ’s. 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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 (brothers, ’s), 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:pg540:13:77 # text = And when they had hauled it up, and had set eyes on the wondrous maidens, they went aside and said: ‘Let’s lower the rope, pull our brother part of the way up, and then cut the rope. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 hauled haul VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 set set VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 parataxis _ _ 12 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 wondrous wondrous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 20 aside aside ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 lower lower VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 pull pull VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 32 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 33 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 up up ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 42 cut cut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **haul up** | past · perfect | brothers *= brother* | hold | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 2 | **set** | past · perfect | | eyes | | the wondrous maidens | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme on maiden=Destination | | 3 | **go** | past | brothers *= brother* | | | | | aside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | brothers *= brother* *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **let** | infinitive | | ’s | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **lower** | infinitive | ’s *not said here* | the rope | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | | 7 | **pull** | infinitive | | our brother part of the way | | | | | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 8 | **cut** | infinitive | | the rope | | | then | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rope=Product | 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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/13/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/13/78/) - ↑ back to [The Norka](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/13/)