--- title: One day it happened that the Baron went out hunting with some compan… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: One day it happened that the Baron went out hunting with some companions along the banks of the River Ouse, and stopped at the fisherman's hut to get a drink, and the girl came out to give it to them. Who acts: it, Baron, girl. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the R --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/15/) [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/) / [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/) / 15 # English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 15 One day it happened that the Baron went out hunting with some companions along the banks of the River Ouse, and stopped at the fisherman's hut to get a drink, and the girl came out to give it to them. **Who acts:** it, Baron, girl · **What happens:** happen, go out, hunt, stop, get, come out · **To what, where:** banks, hut, drink, companions This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, Baron, girl), 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:pg7439:41:15 # text = One day it happened that the Baron went out hunting with some companions along the banks of the River Ouse, and stopped at the fisherman's hut to get a drink, and the girl came out to give it to them. 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 2 nummod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 happened happen VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 Baron Baron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 9 out out ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ 10 hunting hunt VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 13 det _ _ 13 companions companion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 along along ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Ouse Ouse PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 at at ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 fisherman fisherman NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 's 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 hut hut NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 advcl _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 drink drink NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 38 out out ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 xcomp _ _ 41 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obj _ _ 42 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **happen** | past | it | | | | day | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **go out** | past | the Baron | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **hunt** | gerund | the Baron *not said here* | | | the banks of the River Ouse | | with some companions | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent along bank=Location | | 4 | **stop** | past | | | | the fisherman's hut | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at hut=Location | | 5 | **get** | to-infinitive | | a drink | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drink=Stimulus | | 6 | **come out** | past | the girl | | | | | out *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | drink | companions *= companion* | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to they=Recipient | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/16/) - ↑ back to [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/)