--- title: The little hare then vanished; the youth did as he was bid, and the… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The little hare then vanished; the youth did as he was bid, and the castle servants never noticed that he was carrying off the Golden Bird. Who acts: little hare, youth, castle servants, hare. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/21/67/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Golden Blackbird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/21/) / 67 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 67 The little hare then vanished; the youth did as he was bid, and the castle servants never noticed that he was carrying off the Golden Bird. **Who acts:** little hare, youth, castle servants, hare · **What happens:** vanish, do, bid, not notice, carry off · **To what, where:** hare, Golden Bird This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little hare, youth, castle servants, hare), 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:pg7277:21:67 # text = The little hare then vanished; the youth did as he was bid, and the castle servants never noticed that he was carrying off the Golden Bird. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 5 advmod _ _ 5 vanished vanish VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 bid bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 21 that that SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 carrying carry VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 25 off off ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 27 Golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 Bird Bird PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | past | the little hare | | | | then | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **do** | past | the youth | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **bid** | past · passive | | hare | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **notice** | past | the castle servants | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **carry off** | past · progressive | hare | the Golden Bird | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/21/66/) - next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/21/68/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Blackbird](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/21/)