---
title: The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road,… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road, with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold. Who acts: Witch, soldier. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/59/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / 59

# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 59

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road, with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Witch, soldier · **What happens:** pull up, stand, fill · **To what, where:** soldier, high road, boots

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (Witch, soldier), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg640:46:59
# text = The Witch pulled him up, and there he stood again on the high road, with pockets, knapsack, cap and boots filled with gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Witch	Witch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pulled	pull	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	again	again	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	pockets	pocket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	knapsack	knapsack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cap	cap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
25	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull up** | past | the Witch | soldier |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result |
| 2 | **stand** | past | soldier |  |  | the high road; there | again | with pockets  cap and boots and knapsack | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on road=Location |
| 3 | **fill** | participle |  | boots *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with gold=Instrument |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/58/)
- next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/60/)
- ↑ back to [The Tinder-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/46/)