--- title: Then he dressed his grandmother in her Sunday clothes, borrowed a ho… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he dressed his grandmother in her Sunday clothes, borrowed a horse from his neighbour, harnessed the cart to it, sat his grandmother on the back seat so that she could not fall out when he drove, and away they went. Who acts: Klaus, grandmother, horses. 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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 (Klaus, grandmother, horses), 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:pg640:41:159 # text = Then he dressed his grandmother in her Sunday clothes, borrowed a horse from his neighbour, harnessed the cart to it, sat his grandmother on the back seat so that she could not fall out when he drove, and away they went. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 dressed dress VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 Sunday Sunday PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 borrowed borrow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 neighbour neighbour NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 harnessed harness VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cart cart NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 on on ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 31 fixed _ _ 33 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 36 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 37 out out ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ _ 38 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 40 advmod _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 drove drive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 away away ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dress** | past | Klaus | Klaus's grandmother | | grandmother's Sunday clothes | then | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Patient | | 2 | **borrow** | past | Klaus *not said here* | a horse | | Klaus's neighbour | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme from neighbour=Source | | 3 | **harness** | past | Klaus *not said here* | the cart | cart | | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent cart=Patient to it=Co-Patient | | 4 | **sit** | past | Klaus *not said here* | Klaus's grandmother | | the back seat | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme on seat=Location | | 5 | **not** **fall out** | could | grandmother | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **drive** | past | Klaus | | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **go** | past | horses *= horse* | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 158](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/158/) - next →: [sentence 160](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/160/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/)