---
title: But as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a hea… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavy stone on to the rope and let them pull it up. Who acts: last, ropes. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/76/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 76

# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 76

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
But as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavy stone on to the rope and let them pull it up.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** last, ropes · **What happens:** be, fasten, let, pull up · **To what, where:** heavy stone, ropes, stone

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (last, ropes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg640:24:76
# text = But as he was a little suspicious of his brothers, he fastened a heavy stone on to the rope and let them pull it up.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	suspicious	suspicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	pull	pull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | last |  |  |  |  | of last's brothers; a little *obl:unmarked*; suspicious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fasten** | past | last | a heavy stone |  |  |  | on the rope | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent stone=Patient on rope=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive | last *not said here* | ropes *= rope* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pull up** | infinitive | ropes *= rope* *not said here* | stone |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/75/)
- next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/77/)
- ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/24/)