--- title: This he took and filled it with gold and silver, and then he tied th… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This he took and filled it with gold and silver, and then he tied the cable round himself and the Princess and the chest, and tugged at the rope with all his might, whereupon his men drew them up safe and sound. Who acts: This, Minnikin, men. 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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 (This, Minnikin, men), 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:pg540:46:48 # text = This he took and filled it with gold and silver, and then he tied the cable round himself and the Princess and the chest, and tugged at the rope with all his might, whereupon his men drew them up safe and sound. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obj _ _ 7 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 cable cable NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 round round ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 tugged tug VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 29 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 rope rope NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 with with SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 35 det:predet _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 whereupon whereupon ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 40 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 up up ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ _ 43 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 xcomp _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 sound sound NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | This | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **fill** | past | This *not said here* | eye | | | | with gold and silver | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with gold=Instrument | | 3 | **tie** | past | Minnikin | the cable | | | then | round Minnikin | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cable=Patient | | 4 | **tug** | participle | This *not said here* | | | | | at the rope | vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at rope=Theme | | 5 | **draw up** | past | Minnikin's men | gold | | | | safe, whereupon *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/49/) - ↑ back to [Mother Holle, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/)