--- title: The Herd-boy was very much delighted over his stroke of good fortune… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The Herd-boy was very much delighted over his stroke of good fortune, and, hiding the magic loaf in his bag, he hurried off to the nearest village to buy himself something to eat, and then returned to his sheep. Who acts: Herd boy, lad. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grate --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/87/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/) / 87 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 87 The Herd-boy was very much delighted over his stroke of good fortune, and, hiding the magic loaf in his bag, he hurried off to the nearest village to buy himself something to eat, and then returned to his sheep. **Who acts:** Herd boy, lad · **What happens:** be, hide, hurry off, buy, eat, return · **To what, where:** stroke, magic loaf, bag, nearest village, something, lad 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, lad), 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:pg640:15:87 # text = The Herd-boy was very much delighted over his stroke of good fortune, and, hiding the magic loaf in his bag, he hurried off to the nearest village to buy himself something to eat, and then returned to his sheep. 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 8 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 cop _ _ 6 very very ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 much much ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 delighted delighted ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 9 over over ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 stroke stroke NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 loaf loaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 hurried hurry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 28 off off ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 32 amod _ _ 32 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 35 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 iobj _ _ 36 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 34 obj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 42 advmod _ _ 42 returned return VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Herd boy | | | lad's stroke of good fortune | | delighted *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hide** | gerund | the Herd boy *not said here* | the magic loaf | | lad's bag | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient in bag=Location | | 3 | **hurry off** | past | lad | | | the nearest village | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | | 4 | **buy** | to-infinitive | lad *not said here* | something | lad | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary something=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | to-infinitive | lad *not said here* | something *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **return** | past | | | | | then | to lad's sheep *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to sheep=Result | | 7 | **stroke** | | lad | good fortune | | | | | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=agent of=patient | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 86](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/86/) - next →: [sentence 88](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/88/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/)