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title: With these words he handed the Herd-boy a belt, and walking on in fr… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: With these words he handed the Herd-boy a belt, and walking on in front he led him to a fountain where hundreds of Giants and Giantesses were assembled preparing to hold a wedding. Who acts: leg. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependen
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 66

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With these words he handed the Herd-boy a belt, and walking on in front he led him to a fountain where hundreds of Giants and Giantesses were assembled preparing to hold a wedding.

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**Who acts:** leg · **What happens:** hand, walk on, lead, assemble, prepare, hold · **To what, where:** belt, Herd boy, front, BOY, fountain, hundreds

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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 (leg), 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:pg640:15:66
# text = With these words he handed the Herd-boy a belt, and walking on in front he led him to a fountain where hundreds of Giants and Giantesses were assembled preparing to hold a wedding.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	handed	hand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	Herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	csubj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
25	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Giants	Giant	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	Giantesses	Giantess	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl:relcl	_	_
32	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	advcl	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | past | leg | a belt | the Herd boy |  |  | with this words | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Destination belt=Theme |
| 2 | **walk on** | gerund |  |  |  | front |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lead** | past | leg | BOY |  | a fountain |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to fountain=Destination |
| 4 | **assemble** | past · passive |  | hundreds of Giants and Giantesses |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **prepare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 6 | **hold** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | a wedding |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wedding=Theme |

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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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