--- title: Then the herons gathered themselves together into one feather bed an… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the herons gathered themselves together into one feather bed and the cygnets placed their mother upon them, and suddenly they all rose in the air bearing the bride away with them in safety towards Prince Florentine's home. Who acts: herons, cygnets. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/46/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [Earl Mar's Daughter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/) / 46 # English Fairy Tales, Earl Mar's Daughter, sentence 46 Then the herons gathered themselves together into one feather bed and the cygnets placed their mother upon them, and suddenly they all rose in the air bearing the bride away with them in safety towards Prince Florentine's home. **Who acts:** herons, cygnets · **What happens:** gather, place, rise, bear away · **To what, where:** herons, mother, air, bride, safety This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Earl Mar's Daughter. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (herons, cygnets), 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:pg7439:35:46 # text = Then the herons gathered themselves together into one feather bed and the cygnets placed their mother upon them, and suddenly they all rose in the air bearing the bride away with them in safety towards Prince Florentine's home. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 herons heron NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 together together ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 7 into into ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 9 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 cygnets cygnet NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 upon upon ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 21 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 24 advmod _ _ 24 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 bearing bear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bride bride NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 away away ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 safety safety NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 towards towards ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 37 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:desc _ _ 38 Florentine Florentine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 39 's 's PART POS _ 38 case _ _ 40 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past | the herons | herons *= heron* | | | then | into one feather bed; together *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into bed=Co-Patient | | 2 | **place** | past | the cygnets | herons's mother | | | | upon herons *= heron* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme upon they=Destination | | 3 | **rise** | past | herons *= heron* | | | the air | | suddenly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in air=Location | | 4 | **bear away** | gerund | herons *= heron* *not said here* | the bride | | safety towards Florentine Prince's home | | with herons *= heron*; away *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/47/) - ↑ back to [Earl Mar's Daughter](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/35/)