--- title: He grieved for their unhappy fate, and at once proceeded to bury the… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He grieved for their unhappy fate, and at once proceeded to bury them; but no sooner had he laid them in their graves, than their hands started up through the earth and remained sticking up like those of their fellows. Who acts: Prince, hands, names. 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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 (Prince, hands, names), 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:pg640:17:2 # text = He grieved for their unhappy fate, and at once proceeded to bury them; but no sooner had he laid them in their graves, than their hands started up through the earth and remained sticking up like those of their fellows. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 grieved grieve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 5 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 11 obl _ _ 11 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 xcomp _ _ 14 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 19 advmod _ _ 19 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 graves grave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 than than SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 hands hand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 sticking stick VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 36 xcomp _ _ 38 up up ADP RP _ 37 compound:prt _ _ 39 like like ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 37 obl _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 fellows fellow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** | past | Prince | | | | | for names's unhappy fate | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **proceed** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **bury** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | names *= name* | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **have** | past | | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **lay** | past | Prince | names *= name* | | names's graves | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in grave=Destination | | 6 | **start up** | past | names's hands | | | the earth | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **remain** | past | Prince *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stick up** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | | | | | like those | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 9 | **fate** | | names *= name* | | | | | | nom fate «event 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 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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/3/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/17/)