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title: Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in i… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in it instead, and at his request fastened it securely and drove the sheep on himself. Who acts: shepherd. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 102

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Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in it instead, and at his request fastened it securely and drove the sheep on himself.

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**Who acts:** shepherd · **What happens:** get out, tie up, confide, fasten, drive, request · **To what, where:** sack, confiding shepherd, request, sheep

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg7277:26:102
# text = Then getting out of the sack, he tied the confiding shepherd up in it instead, and at his request fastened it securely and drove the sheep on himself.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	confiding	confide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
16	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	request	request	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	fastened	fasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	securely	securely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get out** | gerund | shepherd *not said here* | the sack |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **tie up** | past | shepherd | the confiding shepherd |  | sack |  | instead *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Patient |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fasten** | past | shepherd *not said here* | sack |  | shepherd's request |  | securely *property* | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 5 | **drive** | past | shepherd *not said here* | the sheep |  |  |  | on shepherd | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme on himself=Destination |
| 6 | **request** |  | shepherd |  |  |  |  |  | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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.

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