--- title: At this they howled at him, and were about to lay hold of him and dr… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At this they howled at him, and were about to lay hold of him and drag him off; but when they had got some raps from his walking-stick they let go again, howled still louder than before, and ran in to Old Eric, who was still in bed, after his adventure in the lake. Who acts: compliments, walking sti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/13/95/) [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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/13/) / 95 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 95 At this they howled at him, and were about to lay hold of him and drag him off; but when they had got some raps from his walking-stick they let go again, howled still louder than before, and ran in to Old Eric, who was still in bed, after his adventure in the lake. **Who acts:** compliments, walking stick, Old Eric, Hans · **What happens:** howl, be, lay, drag off, get, let · **To what, where:** hold, Hans, raps, walking stick, Old Eric, bed This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (compliments, walking stick, Old Eric, Hans), 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:pg5615:13:95 # text = At this they howled at him, and were about to lay hold of him and drag him off; but when they had got some raps from his walking-stick they let go again, howled still louder than before, and ran in to Old Eric, who was still in bed, after his adventure in the lake. 1 At at ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 howled howl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 10 about about ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 14 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nmod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obj _ _ 19 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 23 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 4 parataxis _ _ 26 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 27 det _ _ 27 raps rap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obj _ _ 28 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 30 walking walking NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 35 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 xcomp _ _ 36 again again ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 howled howl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 39 still still ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 xcomp _ _ 41 than than ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 before before ADV RB _ 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 46 in in ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 Eric Eric PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 55 punct _ _ 51 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 55 nsubj _ _ 52 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 55 cop _ _ 53 still still ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 after after ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 adventure adventure NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 60 in in ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 62 det _ _ 62 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **howl** | past | compliments *= compliment* | | | | | at Hans; at this | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at this=Stimulus | | 2 | **is** | past | compliments *= compliment* *not said here* | | | | | about *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **lay** | to-infinitive | compliments *= compliment* *not said here* | hold of Hans | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Result | | 4 | **drag off** | infinitive | compliments *= compliment* *not said here* | Hans | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 5 | **get** | past · perfect | compliments *= compliment* | some raps | | Hans's walking stick | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rap=Theme from stick=Source | | 6 | **let** | past | compliments *= compliment* | Hans's walking stick *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **go** | infinitive | Hans's walking stick *not said here* | | | | again | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **howl** | past | compliments *= compliment* *not said here* | | | | | loud *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **run in** | past | compliments *= compliment* *not said here* | | Old Eric | | after Hans's adventure in the lake | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to eric=Result | | 10 | **is** | past | Old Eric | | | bed | still | | tree rules | | 11 | **hold** | | | Hans | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | | 12 | **adventure** | | Hans | | | the lake | | | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/13/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/13/96/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/13/)