--- title: Hardly had he sat down under the bridge and heaved a sigh, than Pudd… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Hardly had he sat down under the bridge and heaved a sigh, than Puddocky came out; and, sitting down opposite him, asked, ‘What’s wrong with you now, dear Prince?’ Who acts: youngest, Puddocky, sitting. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest, Puddocky, sitting), 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:pg7277:29:100 # text = Hardly had he sat down under the bridge and heaved a sigh, than Puddocky came out; and, sitting down opposite him, asked, ‘What’s wrong with you now, dear Prince?’ 1 Hardly hardly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 ccomp _ _ 5 down down ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 heaved heave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 sigh sigh NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 than than SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 Puddocky Puddocky PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 17 out out ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 sitting sit VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 csubj _ _ 22 down down ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 opposite opposite ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 26 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 ccomp _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 34 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | | | | | | hardly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit down** | past | youngest *= young* | | | the bridge | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under bridge=Location | | 3 | **heave** | past | youngest *= young* *not said here* | a sigh | | | | | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme | | 4 | **come out** | past | Puddocky | | | | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **sit down** | gerund | | | | | | opposite youngest *= young*; down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent opposite he=Location | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | sitting | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **is** | present | | | | | now | with you; dear Prince *vocative*; wrong *property* | tree rules | 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 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/99/) - next →: [The Biter Bit, part 5, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/30/1/) - ↑ back to [The Biter Bit, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/29/)