--- title: Then he got up and took a road that led straight past the palace, bu… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he got up and took a road that led straight past the palace, but he had not walked many steps before he met a man carrying a large silver dish, covered with a white cloth to cover the dates. Who acts: sun, road, man. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of Peop --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/59/) [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 Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/) / 59 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Nunda, Eater of People, sentence 59 Then he got up and took a road that led straight past the palace, but he had not walked many steps before he met a man carrying a large silver dish, covered with a white cloth to cover the dates. **Who acts:** sun, road, man · **What happens:** get up, take, lead, not walk, meet, carry · **To what, where:** road, palace, many steps, man, large silver dish, dates This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nunda, Eater of People. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, road, man), 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:pg641:29:59 # text = Then he got up and took a road that led straight past the palace, but he had not walked many steps before he met a man carrying a large silver dish, covered with a white cloth to cover the dates. 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 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 road road NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 straight straight ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 12 past past ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 walked walk VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ _ 21 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 23 before before SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 carrying carry VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 30 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 31 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 35 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 cloth cloth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 cover cover VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 dates date NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | sun | | | | then | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **take** | past | sun *not said here* | a road | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | | 3 | **lead** | past | a road | the palace | | | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | | 4 | **not** **walk** | past · perfect | sun | many steps | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Trajectory | | 5 | **meet** | past | sun | a man | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Co-Agent | | 6 | **carry** | gerund | a man *not said here* | a large silver dish | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme | | 7 | **cover** | participle | sun *not said here* | | | | | with a white cloth | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with cloth=Theme | | 8 | **cover** | to-infinitive | sun *not said here* | the dates | | | | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme date=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 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/58/) - next →: [sentence 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/60/) - ↑ back to [The Nunda, Eater of People](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/29/)