--- title: Then he set two men to hold him; each of them was to take an arm, an… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he set two men to hold him; each of them was to take an arm, and shake him and jerk him by the arm whenever he seemed to be going to fall asleep; and he set two men to watch his Bushy Bride. Who acts: King, each. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/85/) [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/) / [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/) / 85 # The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 85 Then he set two men to hold him; each of them was to take an arm, and shake him and jerk him by the arm whenever he seemed to be going to fall asleep; and he set two men to watch his Bushy Bride. **Who acts:** King, each · **What happens:** set, hold, be, shake, jerk, seem · **To what, where:** two men, King, Bushy Bride This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, each), 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:pg540:47:85 # text = Then he set two men to hold him; each of them was to take an arm, and shake him and jerk him by the arm whenever he seemed to be going to fall asleep; and he set two men to watch his Bushy Bride. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 10 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 15 nsubj _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nmod _ _ 13 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 cop _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 16 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 shake shake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 jerk jerk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 whenever whenever ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 seemed seem VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 aux _ _ 33 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 xcomp _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 xcomp _ _ 36 asleep asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 41 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 46 Bushy bushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 Bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | past | King | two men | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | each | | | | | take *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **shake** | infinitive | each *not said here* | King | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 5 | **jerk** | infinitive | each *not said here* | King | | | | by the arm | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | | 6 | **seem** | past | King | | | | | whenever *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | | 7 | **go** | to-infinitive · progressive | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **fall** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | | | | | asleep *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **set** | past | King | two men | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient man=Result | | 10 | **watch** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | King's Bushy Bride | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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 84](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/84/) - next →: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/86/) - ↑ back to [Bushy Bride](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/47/)