--- title: Then he got hold of a long ladder, set it up against the Governor’s… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he got hold of a long ladder, set it up against the Governor’s bedroom window, and climbed up and moved the dead man’s head up and down, just as if he were some one who was standing outside and peeping in. Who acts: Governor, one. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/229/) [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 Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/) / 229 # The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 229 Then he got hold of a long ladder, set it up against the Governor’s bedroom window, and climbed up and moved the dead man’s head up and down, just as if he were some one who was standing outside and peeping in. **Who acts:** Governor, one · **What happens:** get, set up, climb up, move, be, stand · **To what, where:** hold, bedroom window, head, long ladder This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Governor, one), 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:pg540:9:229 # text = Then he got hold of a long ladder, set it up against the Governor’s bedroom window, and climbed up and moved the dead man’s head up and down, just as if he were some one who was standing outside and peeping in. 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 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 10 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 against against ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Governor Governor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 bedroom bedroom NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 window window NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 climbed climb VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 22 up up ADP RP _ 21 compound:prt _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 moved move VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ’s 's PART POS _ 27 case _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 30 up up ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 down down ADV RB _ 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 36 if if SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 cop _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 40 det _ _ 40 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 outside outside ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 peeping peep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 conj _ _ 47 in in ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | past | Governor | hold of a long ladder | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | | 2 | **set up** | infinitive | Governor *not said here* | hold | | the Governor's bedroom window | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme against window=Destination | | 3 | **climb up** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **move** | past | | the dead man's head | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Governor | | | | | as some one | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** | past · progressive | some one | | | | | outside *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **peep** | gerund | some one *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **hold** | | | a long ladder | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 228](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/228/) - next →: [sentence 230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/230/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)