--- title: During the night the Simpleton and his comrade went, together into a… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: During the night the Simpleton and his comrade went, together into a big field, not forgetting to take the bundle of wood with them, which the man spread out in all directions--and in a moment a mighty army stood upon the spot, regiment on regiment of foot and horse soldiers; the bugles sounded and --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/137/) [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/) / [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/) / 137 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flying Ship(24), sentence 137 During the night the Simpleton and his comrade went, together into a big field, not forgetting to take the bundle of wood with them, which the man spread out in all directions--and in a moment a mighty army stood upon the spot, regiment on regiment of foot and horse soldiers; the bugles sounded and the drums beat, the chargers neighed, and their riders put their lances in rest, and the soldiers presented arms. **Who acts:** Simpleton, man, mighty army, bugles, drums, chargers · **What happens:** go, not forget, take, spread out, stand, sound · **To what, where:** big field, bundle, directions, regiment, lances, rest This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flying Ship(24). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simpleton, man, mighty army, bugles), 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:pg640:35:137 # text = During the night the Simpleton and his comrade went, together into a big field, not forgetting to take the bundle of wood with them, which the man spread out in all directions--and in a moment a mighty army stood upon the spot, regiment on regiment of foot and horse soldiers; the bugles sounded and the drums beat, the chargers neighed, and their riders put their lances in rest, and the soldiers presented arms. 1 During during ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Simpleton Simpleton PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 comrade comrade NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 together together ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 forgetting forget VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 bundle bundle NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obj _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 spread spread VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 det _ _ 35 directions direction NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 -- -- PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 mighty mighty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 army army NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 44 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 45 upon upon ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 49 regiment regiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 regiment regiment NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obl _ _ 52 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 56 cc _ _ 55 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ _ 56 soldiers soldier NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 57 ; 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PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the Simpleton and Simpleton's comrade | | | a big field | night | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **not** **forget** | gerund | the Simpleton and Simpleton's comrade *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Simpleton and Simpleton's comrade *not said here* | the bundle of wood | | | | with sons *= son* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme | | 4 | **spread out** | past | the man | | | all directions | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in direction=Destination | | 5 | **stand** | past | a mighty army | | | regiment of foot and horse soldiers | moment | upon the spot and regiment | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon spot=Location | | 6 | **sound** | past | the bugles | | | | | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 7 | **beat** | present | the drums | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **neigh** | past | the chargers | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **put** | past | sons's riders | sons's lances | | rest | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lance=Theme in rest=Destination | | 10 | **present** | past | the soldiers | arms | | | | | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=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 136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/136/) - next →: [sentence 138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/138/) - ↑ back to [The Flying Ship(24)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/35/)