--- title: Then he touched the youth, the girl, the sweep, the clown, the Mayor… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he touched the youth, the girl, the sweep, the clown, the Mayor, and the Mayoress with his little stick, and they were all free again, and ran away home as if a fire were burning behind them; and their flight, as you may imagine, gave rise to renewed merriment. Who acts: Peter, Mayoress, fire, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/65/) [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 Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/) / 65 # The Green Fairy Book, The Magic Swan, sentence 65 Then he touched the youth, the girl, the sweep, the clown, the Mayor, and the Mayoress with his little stick, and they were all free again, and ran away home as if a fire were burning behind them; and their flight, as you may imagine, gave rise to renewed merriment. **Who acts:** Peter, Mayoress, fire, you, flight · **What happens:** touch, be, run away, burn, imagine, give · **To what, where:** youth, rise, renewed merriment This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter, Mayoress, fire, you), 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:pg7277:23:65 # text = Then he touched the youth, the girl, the sweep, the clown, the Mayor, and the Mayoress with his little stick, and they were all free again, and ran away home as if a fire were burning behind them; and their flight, as you may imagine, gave rise to renewed merriment. 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 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sweep sweep NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 clown clown NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 Mayor Mayor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Mayoress Mayoress PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 stick stick NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 parataxis _ _ 32 again again ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 36 away away ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 home home ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 39 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 40 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 42 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 burning burn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 35 advcl _ _ 44 behind behind ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ; ; PUNCT : _ 49 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 48 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 flight flight NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 as as SCONJ IN _ 54 mark _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 54 nsubj _ _ 53 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 54 imagine imagine VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 56 punct _ _ 56 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 57 rise rise NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obj _ _ 58 to to ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 renewed renew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 60 amod _ _ 60 merriment merriment NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **touch** | past | Peter | the youth and the girl | | | then | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme youth=Co-Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | the Mayoress with Peter's little stick | | | | again | all, free *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **run away** | past | Peter *not said here* | | | | | away, home *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **burn** | past · progressive | a fire | | | | | behind sticks *= stick* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind they=Location | | 5 | **imagine** | may | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **give** | past | sticks's flight | rise | renewed merriment | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to merriment=Recipient | | 7 | **renew** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/66/) - ↑ back to [The Magic Swan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/23/)