--- title: Before they set to work, however, they sat down to table, and the la… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Before they set to work, however, they sat down to table, and the landlord and the old witch joined them, and they all ate some broth in which the flesh of the raven had been stewed down. Who acts: murderers, landlord. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle, with its depende --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/25/) [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 Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/) / 25 # The Green Fairy Book, The Riddle, sentence 25 Before they set to work, however, they sat down to table, and the landlord and the old witch joined them, and they all ate some broth in which the flesh of the raven had been stewed down. **Who acts:** murderers, landlord · **What happens:** set, work, sit down, join, eat, stew down · **To what, where:** murderers, broth, flesh This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Riddle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (murderers, landlord), 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:pg7277:47:25 # text = Before they set to work, however, they sat down to table, and the landlord and the old witch joined them, and they all ate some broth in which the flesh of the raven had been stewed down. 1 Before before SCONJ IN _ 3 mark _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 set set VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 7 however however ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 landlord landlord NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 witch witch NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 joined join VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 23 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 28 advmod _ _ 28 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 29 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 30 det _ _ 30 broth broth NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 obl _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ _ 38 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 stewed stew VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 acl:relcl _ _ 41 down down ADP RP _ 40 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **set** | present | murderers *= murderer* | | | | | however *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **work** | to-infinitive | murderers *= murderer* *not said here* | | | | | | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sit down** | past | murderers *= murderer* | | | | | to table | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **join** | past | the landlord and the old witch | murderers *= murderer* | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **eat** | past | murderers *= murderer* | some broth | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent broth=Patient | | 6 | **stew down** | past · perfect · passive | | the flesh of the raven | | | | in some broth | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in which=Instrument | 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 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/24/) - next →: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/26/) - ↑ back to [The Riddle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/47/)