--- title: He went at once to his son Iwanich, and after embracing him tenderly… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He went at once to his son Iwanich, and after embracing him tenderly and heaping praises on him, he asked him how he had succeeded in protecting the costly fruit from the power of the magician. Who acts: gardener. 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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 (gardener), 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:pg640:30:50 # text = He went at once to his son Iwanich, and after embracing him tenderly and heaping praises on him, he asked him how he had succeeded in protecting the costly fruit from the power of the magician. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 2 obl _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 Iwanich Iwanich PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 11 after after SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 12 embracing embrace VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 13 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 tenderly tenderly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 heaping heap VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 conj _ _ 17 praises praise NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 on on ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 succeeded succeed VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 ccomp _ _ 28 in in SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 protecting protect VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 costly costly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 fruit fruit NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 magician magician NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | gardener | | | | | to gardener's son | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to son=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **embrace** | gerund | gardener *not said here* | gardener | | | | tenderly *property* | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | | 3 | **heap** | gerund | gardener *not said here* | praises | | | | on gardener | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent praise=Theme on he=Destination | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | gardener | | Iwanich | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **succeed** | past · perfect | gardener | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **protect** | gerund | gardener *not said here* | the costly fruit | | | | from the power of the magician | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent fruit=Beneficiary from power=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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/51/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/30/)