--- title: With tears and groans the peasant told him the whole dreadful story,… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: With tears and groans the peasant told him the whole dreadful story, and the hare, filled with anger and compassion, comforted him as best he could, and promised to help him in his revenge. Who acts: tears, peasant, hare. 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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 (tears, peasant, hare), 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:pg5615:4:38 # text = With tears and groans the peasant told him the whole dreadful story, and the hare, filled with anger and compassion, comforted him as best he could, and promised to help him in his revenge. 1 With with ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 4 groans groan VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 peasant peasant NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 8 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 iobj _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 dreadful dreadful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 anger anger NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 compassion compassion NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 24 comforted comfort VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 obl _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 help help VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 xcomp _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 in in 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 revenge revenge NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **groan** | present | tears | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the peasant | the whole dreadful story | hare | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | | 3 | **fill** | participle | | the hare *not said here* | | | | with anger and compassion | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with anger=Instrument | | 4 | **comfort** | past | the hare | peasant | | | | best *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | | 5 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the peasant *not said here* | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the peasant *not said here* | | peasant | peasant's revenge | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | | 7 | **revenge** | | peasant | | | | | | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/39/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/4/)