--- title: 'Well, call the ants, and tell them to fetch it for you; and, if som… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Well, call the ants, and tell them to fetch it for you; and, if some of it has been scattered by the wind, to bring in its stead the grains that were in the cakes you gave them.' Who acts: you, wind, grains. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/57/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/) / 57 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 57 'Well, call the ants, and tell them to fetch it for you; and, if some of it has been scattered by the wind, to bring in its stead the grains that were in the cakes you gave them.' **Who acts:** you, wind, grains · **What happens:** call, tell, fetch, scatter, bring, be · **To what, where:** ants, bran, some, grains, stead, cakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wind, grains), 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:pg3027:32:57 # text = 'Well, call the ants, and tell them to fetch it for you; and, if some of it has been scattered by the wind, to bring in its stead the grains that were in the cakes you gave them.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 iobj _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 fetch fetch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 if if SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 20 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nmod _ _ 23 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 scattered scatter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 stead stead NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 37 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 38 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 cop _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cakes cake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obl _ _ 42 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl:relcl _ _ 44 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | imperative | you *not said here* | the ants | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ant=Recipient | | 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | ants *= ant* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **fetch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | bran | | | | for you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for you=Beneficiary | | 4 | **scatter** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · perfect · passive | the wind | some | | | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the grains | | bran's stead | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | | 6 | **is** | past | the grains | | | the cakes | | give *property* | tree rules | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/)