--- title: Then someone pointed out to him the golden lad, who was still wrappe… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then someone pointed out to him the golden lad, who was still wrapped up in the bear’s skin, and the father exclaimed angrily: ‘Never shall a mere bear-keeper have my daughter,’ and tried to rush at him and kill him. Who acts: someone, father, mere bear keeper. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» b --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/62/) [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 Lads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/) / 62 # The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 62 Then someone pointed out to him the golden lad, who was still wrapped up in the bear’s skin, and the father exclaimed angrily: ‘Never shall a mere bear-keeper have my daughter,’ and tried to rush at him and kill him. **Who acts:** someone, father, mere bear keeper · **What happens:** point out, wrap up, exclaim, not have, try, rush · **To what, where:** golden lad, brother, skin, daughter This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (someone, father, mere bear keeper), 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:pg7277:49:62 # text = Then someone pointed out to him the golden lad, who was still wrapped up in the bear’s skin, and the father exclaimed angrily: ‘Never shall a mere bear-keeper have my daughter,’ and tried to rush at him and kill him. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pointed point VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 out out ADP RP _ 3 compound:prt _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 lad lad NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 13 still still ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 wrapped wrap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl:relcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’s 's PART POS _ 18 case _ _ 20 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 26 angrily angrily ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 28 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 32 mere mere ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 33 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 keeper keeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 37 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 43 to to PART TO _ 44 mark _ _ 44 rush rush VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ _ 45 at at ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 conj _ _ 49 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **point out** | past | someone | the golden lad | brother | | then | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent lad=Theme to he=Recipient | | 2 | **wrap up** | past · passive | | the golden lad | | the bear's skin | still | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in skin=Destination | | 3 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | the father | | | | | angrily *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **have** | shall | a mere bear keeper | my daughter | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient | | 5 | **try** | past | someone *not said here* | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 6 | **rush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | someone *not said here* | | | | | at brother | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory | | 7 | **kill** | infinitive | someone *not said here* | brother | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/63/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Lads](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/49/)