--- title: This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains, and tied it round… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains, and tied it round the Princess’ neck; this done, she cut a little hole in the bag, so that the grains would strew the whole road wherever the Princess went. Who acts: This, grains, Princess. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The T --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/118/) [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 Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/) / 118 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 118 This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains, and tied it round the Princess’ neck; this done, she cut a little hole in the bag, so that the grains would strew the whole road wherever the Princess went. **Who acts:** This, grains, Princess · **What happens:** fill, tie, do, cut, strew, go · **To what, where:** bag, little hole, whole road This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, grains, Princess), 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:pg640:46:118 # text = This she filled with the finest buckwheat grains, and tied it round the Princess’ neck; this done, she cut a little hole in the bag, so that the grains would strew the whole road wherever the Princess went. 1 This this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nsubj _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 with with ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 finest fine ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 7 buckwheat buckwheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 round round ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’ 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ _ 19 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 23 nsubj _ _ 20 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 bag bag NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 so so SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 strew strew VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 conj _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 43 advmod _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 Princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fill** | past | This | | | | | with the finest buckwheat grains | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with grain=Instrument | | 2 | **tie** | past | This *not said here* | bag | | | | round the Princess's neck | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 3 | **do** | participle | this *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **cut** | past | this | a little hole | | the bag | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hole=Product | | 5 | **strew** | would | the grains | the whole road | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent road=Theme | | 6 | **go** | past | the Princess | | | | | wherever *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 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/117/) - next →: [sentence 119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/119/) - ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/)