--- title: He got up and went to see for himself, and when he saw that it was t… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He got up and went to see for himself, and when he saw that it was true and no mistake, he accepted his fate, proposed to the widow, and they were married at once. Who acts: man, boot. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/13/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Three Dwarfs, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/) / 13 # The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 13 He got up and went to see for himself, and when he saw that it was true and no mistake, he accepted his fate, proposed to the widow, and they were married at once. **Who acts:** man, boot · **What happens:** get up, go, see, be, accept, propose · **To what, where:** fate, widow, girls This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, boot), 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:pg540:37:13 # text = He got up and went to see for himself, and when he saw that it was true and no mistake, he accepted his fate, proposed to the widow, and they were married at once. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 that that SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 21 det _ _ 21 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 accepted accept VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 proposed propose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 widow widow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 aux:pass _ _ 36 married marry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 conj _ _ 37 at at ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | man | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go** | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | man *not said here* | | | | | for man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **see** | past | man | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | past | boot | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **accept** | past | man | man's fate | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Theme | | 7 | **propose** | participle | | man's fate *not said here* | the widow | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to widow=Recipient | | 8 | **marry** | past · passive | | girls *= girl* | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 9 | **fate** | | man | | | | | | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent | 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 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/14/) - ↑ back to [The Three Dwarfs, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/37/)