--- title: Now as soon as the little boy had eaten all the food which his siste… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now as soon as the little boy had eaten all the food which his sister had left him, he went out into the woods, and gathered berries and dug up roots, and while the sun shone he was contented and had his fill. Who acts: sister, boy, sun. 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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 (sister, boy, sun), 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:pg640:25:17 # text = Now as soon as the little boy had eaten all the food which his sister had left him, he went out into the woods, and gathered berries and dug up roots, and while the sun shone he was contented and had his fill. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 2 as as ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 4 as as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 eaten eat VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 10 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 12 det:predet _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 obj _ _ 14 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 12 acl:relcl _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 22 out out ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 into into ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 woods wood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 29 berries berry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 dug dig VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 32 up up ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 36 while while SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 shone shine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 contented content VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 ccomp _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 conj _ _ 45 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 46 nmod:poss _ _ 46 fill fill NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | | all food | | | now | as the little boy; soon *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | boy's sister | all food | boy | | | | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme which=Attribute | | 3 | **go out** | past | boy | | | the woods | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **gather** | past | boy *not said here* | berries and dug roots | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Theme | | 5 | **dig up** | participle | | | | | | | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **shine** | past | the sun | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **content** | past · passive | | boy | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 8 | **have** | past | the sun *not said here* | boy's fill | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fill=Patient | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/18/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)