--- title: After he had lain for a little he took a little pull at this, and th… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After he had lain for a little he took a little pull at this, and then another and another, and he thought this did him good, and soon he was sleeping sweetly, and dreaming that he was in heaven. Who acts: carpenter, this. 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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 (carpenter, this), 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:pg5615:32:64 # text = After he had lain for a little he took a little pull at this, and then another and another, and he thought this did him good, and soon he was sleeping sweetly, and dreaming that he was in heaven. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 lain lie VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 obl _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 pull pull NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 18 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 9 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 25 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 nsubj _ _ 26 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 27 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ _ 28 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 34 advmod _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 sleeping sleep VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 35 sweetly sweetly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 dreaming dream VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | past · perfect | carpenter | | | | | for a little | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **take** | past | carpenter | a little pull | | this | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent pull=Theme at this=Asset | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | carpenter | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | this | carpenter | | | | good *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | | 5 | **sleep** | past · progressive | carpenter | | | | | soon, sweetly *property* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **dream** | gerund | carpenter *not said here* | | | | | | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | past | carpenter | | | heaven | | | tree rules | 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/65/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/32/)