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title: The Herd-boy took off his shirt, and bound up the Giant’s wounded fo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Herd-boy took off his shirt, and bound up the Giant’s wounded foot with it. Who acts: Herd boy. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 62

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The Herd-boy took off his shirt, and bound up the Giant’s wounded foot with it.

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**Who acts:** Herd boy · **What happens:** take off, bind up · **To what, where:** shirt, Giant wounded foot

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herd boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg640:15:62
# text = The Herd-boy took off his shirt, and bound up the Giant’s wounded foot with it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	shirt	shirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	Giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take off** | past | the Herd boy | BOY's shirt |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shirt=Theme |
| 2 | **bind up** | participle | the Herd boy *not said here* | the Giant wounded foot |  |  |  | with foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with it=Co-Patient |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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