--- title: And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each prince had quite a following of young beasts padding along behind him. Who acts: it, prince, young beasts. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/9/) [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 Three Princes and Their Beasts (li…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/) / 9 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 9 And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each prince had quite a following of young beasts padding along behind him. **Who acts:** it, prince, young beasts · **What happens:** happen, have, follow, pad · **To what, where:** bear This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, prince, young beasts), 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:pg641:5:9 # text = And so it happened with a fox, a hare, a boar, and a bear, till each prince had quite a following of young beasts padding along behind him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 with with ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 boar boar NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 21 det _ _ 21 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 23 quite quite DET PDT PronType=Ind 25 det:predet _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 following follow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 beasts beast NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 padding pad VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 along along ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 31 behind behind ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | a bear | | | | with a fox | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | each prince | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | gerund | | | | | | of young beasts | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent of beast=Trajectory | | 4 | **pad** | gerund | young beasts *not said here* | | | | | behind fox; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind he=Trajectory | 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/10/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/5/)