--- title: And when she got down to him, he whisked her up on to a large coal-b… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: And when she got down to him, he whisked her up on to a large coal-black horse with fiery eyes, that stood at the door; and soon they were going at a rare pace, Dame Goody holding on to the old fellow like grim death. Who acts: Dame, fellow, fiery eyes, eyes. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by J --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/46/4/) [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/) / [Fairy Ointment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/46/) / 4 # English Fairy Tales, Fairy Ointment, sentence 4 And when she got down to him, he whisked her up on to a large coal-black horse with fiery eyes, that stood at the door; and soon they were going at a rare pace, Dame Goody holding on to the old fellow like grim death. **Who acts:** Dame, fellow, fiery eyes, eyes · **What happens:** get down, whisk up, stand, go, hold on · **To what, where:** fellow, Dame, door This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fairy Ointment. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dame, fellow, fiery eyes, eyes), 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:pg7439:46:4 # text = And when she got down to him, he whisked her up on to a large coal-black horse with fiery eyes, that stood at the door; and soon they were going at a rare pace, Dame Goody holding on to the old fellow like grim death. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 5 down down ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 whisked whisk VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 on on SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 16 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 17 coal coal NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 advcl _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 fiery fiery ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 at at ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 rare rare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 pace pace NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 41 Dame Dame PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 appos _ _ 42 Goody Goody PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 flat _ _ 43 holding hold VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 xcomp _ _ 44 on on ADP RP _ 43 compound:prt _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 47 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 49 like like ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 50 grim grim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get down** | past | Dame | | fellow | | | down *property* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to he=Result | | 2 | **whisk up** | past | fellow | Dame | | | | | vn shake-22.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 3 | **stand** | past | fiery eyes | | | the door | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | | 4 | **go** | past · progressive | eyes *= eye* | | | | | at a rare pace; soon *property* | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **hold on** | gerund | eyes *= eye* *not said here* | | | | | to the old fellow like grim death | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/46/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/46/5/) - ↑ back to [Fairy Ointment](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/46/)