--- title: He put aside his bow, and went neither to fight nor to hunt, but fro… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He put aside his bow, and went neither to fight nor to hunt, but from sunrise to sunset he sat by the place where she was laid, thinking of his happiness that was buried there. Who acts: heart. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21), with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/6/) [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/) / [In the Land of Souls (21)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/) / 6 # The Yellow Fairy Book, In the Land of Souls (21), sentence 6 He put aside his bow, and went neither to fight nor to hunt, but from sunrise to sunset he sat by the place where she was laid, thinking of his happiness that was buried there. **Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** put aside, go, fight, hunt, sit, lay · **To what, where:** bow, illness, happiness This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, In the Land of Souls (21). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg640:28:6 # text = He put aside his bow, and went neither to fight nor to hunt, but from sunrise to sunset he sat by the place where she was laid, thinking of his happiness that was buried there. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 aside aside ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 bow bow NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 neither neither ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 fight fight VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 xcomp _ _ 12 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 14 cc _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 hunt hunt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 29 advmod _ _ 27 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux:pass _ _ 29 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 thinking think VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 happiness happiness NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 buried bury VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl:relcl _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put aside** | past | heart | heart's bow | | | | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent bow=Goal | | 2 | **go** | past | heart *not said here* | | | | | neither *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | | | | | | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | | | | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **sit** | past | heart | | | | sunrise | by the place | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by place=Location | | 6 | **lay** | past · passive | | illness | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | | 7 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | heart *not said here* | | | | | of heart's happiness | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **bury** | past · passive | | heart's happiness | | there | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/7/) - ↑ back to [In the Land of Souls (21)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/28/)