--- title: After this, by fair words and good payment, he borrowed a ragged gow… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After this, by fair words and good payment, he borrowed a ragged gown and a jerkin from an aged woman, and then, with a staff in his hand and a poke on his back, he hobbled off as evening came on towards the Governor’s stable. Who acts: Governor, staff, evening. 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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 (Governor, staff, evening), 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:pg540:9:164 # text = After this, by fair words and good payment, he borrowed a ragged gown and a jerkin from an aged woman, and then, with a staff in his hand and a poke on his back, he hobbled off as evening came on towards the Governor’s stable. 1 After after ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 payment payment NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 borrowed borrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 ragged ragged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 gown gown NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 jerkin jerkin NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 aged aged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 27 with with ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 staff staff NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 poke poke NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 36 on on ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 hobbled hobble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 42 off off ADP RP _ 41 compound:prt _ _ 43 as as SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 44 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nsubj _ _ 45 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 46 on on ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 47 towards towards ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Governor Governor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’s 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 stable stable NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **borrow** | past | Governor | a ragged gown and a jerkin from a aged woman | | | after this | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme | | 2 | **hobble off** | past | a staff in Governor's hand and a poke on Governor's back | | | | then | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **come on** | past | evening | | | the Governor's stable | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards stable=Initial\_Location | 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 163](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/163/) - next →: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/165/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)