--- title: The fisherman did as they told him--gathered the dew from the leaves… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The fisherman did as they told him--gathered the dew from the leaves and let them swim in it, then put them to lie in the sun till the dew should be all dried up. Who acts: fisherman, fishermen. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/78/) [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 Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/) / 78 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 78 The fisherman did as they told him--gathered the dew from the leaves and let them swim in it, then put them to lie in the sun till the dew should be all dried up. **Who acts:** fisherman, fishermen · **What happens:** do, tell, gather, let, swim, put · **To what, where:** loaf, dew, leaves, fishermen, sun · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fisherman, fishermen), 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:pg641:35:78 # text = The fisherman did as they told him--gathered the dew from the leaves and let them swim in it, then put them to lie in the sun till the dew should be all dried up. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 23 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 lie lie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 30 till till SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 aux:pass _ _ 35 all all ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 advcl _ _ 37 up up ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the fisherman | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | fishermen *= fisherman* | | loaf | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 3 | **gather** | past | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | the dew | | the leaves | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent dew=Theme from leaf=Source | | 4 | **let** | infinitive | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | fishermen *= fisherman* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **swim** | infinitive | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | | | dew | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Trajectory | | 6 | **put** | infinitive | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | fishermen *= fisherman* | | | then | | tree rules | | 7 | **lie** | to-infinitive | fishermen *= fisherman* *not said here* | | | the sun | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sun=Location | | 8 | **dry up** | should · passive | | the dew | | | | all *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/79/) - ↑ back to [The Boys With the Golden Stars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/35/)