--- title: As I entered the forest I saw two roe-deer hopping on one foot, so I… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As I entered the forest I saw two roe-deer hopping on one foot, so I slew them with a single blow, and made three bags from their skins, all of which I filled with honey and placed on the back of the cock. Who acts: I, two roe deer, skins. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/41/) [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 Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/) / 41 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 41 As I entered the forest I saw two roe-deer hopping on one foot, so I slew them with a single blow, and made three bags from their skins, all of which I filled with honey and placed on the back of the cock. **Who acts:** I, two roe deer, skins · **What happens:** enter, see, hop, slay, make, fill · **To what, where:** forest, two roe deer, one foot, deer, three bags, skins This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, two roe deer, skins), 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:pg641:3:41 # text = As I entered the forest I saw two roe-deer hopping on one foot, so I slew them with a single blow, and made three bags from their skins, all of which I filled with honey and placed on the back of the cock. 1 As as SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 9 roe roe NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 12 hopping hop VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 acl _ _ 13 on on ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 slew slay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 20 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 blow blow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ _ 29 bags bag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 30 from from ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 36 det _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 filled fill VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 acl:relcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 conj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **enter** | past | I | the forest | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme forest=Destination | | 2 | **see** | past | I | two roe deer | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deer=Stimulus | | 3 | **hop** | gerund | two roe deer *not said here* | | | one foot | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on foot=Trajectory | | 4 | **slay** | past | I | deer | | | | with a single blow | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with blow=Instrument | | 5 | **make** | past | I *not said here* | three bags | | deer's skins | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset bag=Product from skin=Material | | 6 | **fill** | past | deer's skins | | | | | with honey | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with honey=Instrument | | 7 | **place** | participle | deer's skins *not said here* | | | the back of the cock | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on back=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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/42/) - ↑ back to [The Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/)