--- title: No sooner had they heard of this presumptuous name than they resolve… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: No sooner had they heard of this presumptuous name than they resolved to gain possession of her who bore it, and either to torment her cruelly, or at least to conceal her from the eyes of all men. Who acts: hatred, possession. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain( --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/48/) [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 Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/) / 48 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 2, sentence 48 No sooner had they heard of this presumptuous name than they resolved to gain possession of her who bore it, and either to torment her cruelly, or at least to conceal her from the eyes of all men. **Who acts:** hatred, possession · **What happens:** have, hear, resolve, gain, bear, torment · **To what, where:** possession, name, cruelly, child, least This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (hatred, possession), 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:pg640:23:48 # text = No sooner had they heard of this presumptuous name than they resolved to gain possession of her who bore it, and either to torment her cruelly, or at least to conceal her from the eyes of all men. 1 No no DET DT PronType=Neg 2 det _ _ 2 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 ccomp _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 presumptuous presumptuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 than than SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 resolved resolve VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 possession possession NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 16 of of SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 either either ADV RB PronType=Ind 25 advmod _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 torment torment VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 cruelly cruelly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 33 obl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 conceal conceal VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 34 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 from from ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | | soon *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hear** | past | hatred | | | | | of this presumptuous name | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of name=Stimulus | | 3 | **resolve** | past | hatred | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **gain** | to-infinitive | hatred *not said here* | possession | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme | | 5 | **bear** | past | possession | name | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **torment** | to-infinitive | | child's cruelly | | | | either *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cruelly=Experiencer | | 7 | **conceal** | to-infinitive | | child | | least | | from the eyes of all men | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Patient from eye=Beneficiary | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/49/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/23/)