--- title: And she went on to tell him that the only way in which the old creat… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And she went on to tell him that the only way in which the old creature could be killed was with the sword that hung up in the castle; but the sword was so heavy that no one could lift it. Who acts: girl, old creature, sword, one. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mount --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/62/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/) / 62 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 62 And she went on to tell him that the only way in which the old creature could be killed was with the sword that hung up in the castle; but the sword was so heavy that no one could lift it. **Who acts:** girl, old creature, sword, one · **What happens:** go on, tell, kill, be, hang up, lift · **To what, where:** eye, old creature, only way, castle, sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, old creature, sword, one), 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:pg640:24:62 # text = And she went on to tell him that the only way in which the old creature could be killed was with the sword that hung up in the castle; but the sword was so heavy that no one could lift it. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ _ 8 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 ccomp _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 17 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux:pass _ _ 19 killed kill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 acl _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 hung hang VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 up up ADP RP _ 25 compound:prt _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 so so ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 37 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 39 det _ _ 39 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go on** | past | girl | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | | eye | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **kill** | could · passive | | the old creature *not said here* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» | | 4 | **is** | past | the old creature | | | the only way | | with the sword | tree rules | | 5 | **hang up** | past | the sword | | | the castle | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in castle=Location | | 6 | **is** | past | the sword | | | | | heavy *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **lift** | could | no one | sword | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/63/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)