--- title: ‘Very well,’ said Petru, and he bound the giant’s left hand to his r… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Very well,’ said Petru, and he bound the giant’s left hand to his right foot, tied one handkerchief round his mouth to prevent him crying out, and another round his eyes, and led him to the river. Who acts: Petru, another. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/126/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/) / 126 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 126 ‘Very well,’ said Petru, and he bound the giant’s left hand to his right foot, tied one handkerchief round his mouth to prevent him crying out, and another round his eyes, and led him to the river. **Who acts:** Petru, another · **What happens:** say, bind, tie, prevent, cry out, lead · **To what, where:** left hand, one handkerchief, Petru, river · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, another), 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:pg641:21:126 # text = ‘Very well,’ said Petru, and he bound the giant’s left hand to his right foot, tied one handkerchief round his mouth to prevent him crying out, and another round his eyes, and led him to the river. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 Petru Petru PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 bound bind VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 left left ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 19 right right ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 tied tie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 round round ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 prevent prevent VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 30 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 crying cry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 32 out out ADP RP _ 31 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 another another PRON DT PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 36 round round ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 obj _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Petru | | | | | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **bind** | past | Petru | the giant's left hand | | | | to Petru's right foot | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient to foot=Co-Patient | | 3 | **tie** | past | Petru *not said here* | one handkerchief | | | | round Petru's mouth | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient | | 4 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | Petru *not said here* | Petru | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer he=Theme | | 5 | **cry out** *speech: express* | gerund | Petru *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lead** | past | another | Petru | | the river | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to river=Destination | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/125/) - next →: [sentence 127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/127/) - ↑ back to [The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/21/)