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title: ‘Yes,’ he answered; ‘but first of all I will take this little bundle… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Yes,’ he answered; ‘but first of all I will take this little bundle of sticks home to my mother,’ and he took one of the trees and wound it round the other five, raised the bundle on his shoulders and bore it off. Who acts: man, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men T
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1, sentence 5

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‘Yes,’ he answered; ‘but first of all I will take this little bundle of sticks home to my mother,’ and he took one of the trees and wound it round the other five, raised the bundle on his shoulders and bore it off.

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**Who acts:** man, I · **What happens:** answer, take, wound, raise, bear off · **To what, where:** little bundle, one, bundle, shoulders

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), 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:pg640:19:5
# text = ‘Yes,’ he answered; ‘but first of all I will take this little bundle of sticks home to my mother,’ and he took one of the trees and wound it round the other five, raised the bundle on his shoulders and bore it off.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	advmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	ccomp	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	home	home	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
30	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	round	round	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
45	on	on	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	obj	_	_
51	off	off	ADP	RP	_	49	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | future | I | this little bundle of sticks |  |  |  | home *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | man | one of the trees |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
| 4 | **wound** | infinitive | man *not said here* | bundle |  |  |  | round the other five | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus it=Experiencer |
| 5 | **raise** | past |  | the bundle |  | man's shoulders |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme on shoulder=Destination |
| 6 | **bear off** | past |  | bundle |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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