--- title: Then the heart of the elder sunk, and he hastened towards him, cryin… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the heart of the elder sunk, and he hastened towards him, crying, ‘Brother, little brother, come to me;’ but he, being half a wolf, only continued his song. Who acts: heart, brother. 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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 (heart, brother), 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:pg640:25:26 # text = Then the heart of the elder sunk, and he hastened towards him, crying, ‘Brother, little brother, come to me;’ but he, being half a wolf, only continued his song. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 11 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 elder elder ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sunk sunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 hastened hasten VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 towards towards ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 come come VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 31 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 cop _ _ 32 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 34 det:predet _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wolf wolf NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 continued continue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hasten** | past | the heart of the elder sunk | | | | then | towards brother | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | | 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the heart of the elder sunk *not said here* | Brother and little brother | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 3 | **come** | infinitive | the heart of the elder sunk *not said here* | | me | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **is a** | gerund | brother | half wolf | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **continue** | past | | brother's song | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent song=Theme | | 6 | **sing** | | brother | | | | | | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/27/) - ↑ back to [The Glass Mountain(16), part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/25/)