--- title: The next day he went out to hunt, and when he came home the first th… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The next day he went out to hunt, and when he came home the first thing he did was to go up to the doll and brush off some of the ashes from the fire which had fallen on its face. Who acts: husband, first thing, fire. 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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 (husband, first thing, fire), 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:pg640:27:7 # text = The next day he went out to hunt, and when he came home the first thing he did was to go up to the doll and brush off some of the ashes from the fire which had fallen on its face. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 out out ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 home home ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj:outer _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 23 up up ADP RP _ 22 compound:prt _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 doll doll NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 brush brush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 29 off off ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 30 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 28 obj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 ashes ash NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 34 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 39 nsubj _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ _ 40 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go out** | past | husband | | | | day | out *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | husband *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **come** | past | husband | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **do** | past | husband | the first thing *not said here* | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 5 | **is** | past | the first thing | | | | | to the doll; go *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **brush off** | infinitive | the first thing *not said here* | some | | the fire | | | vn wipe\_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent some=Theme from fire=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **fall** | past · perfect | the fire | | | fire's face | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on face=Location | 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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/27/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/27/8/) - ↑ back to [The Dead Wife(20)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/27/)