--- title: At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying: “… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying: “Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.” W --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/68/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/) / 68 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 68 At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying: “Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.” **Who acts:** youth, sea kobolds · **What happens:** jump up, say, ride, not return, take, live · **To what, where:** war, violin, seashore, bottom, youth, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, sea kobolds), 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:pg3282:18:68 # text = At this point a cock crew, and the youth jumped up hastily saying: “Of course I shall ride with the king to the war, and if I do not return, take your violin every evening to the seashore and play on it, so that the very sea-kobolds who live at the bottom of the ocean may hear it and come to you.” 1 At at ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 crew crew NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 jumped jump VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 16 “ " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Of of ADP IN ExtPos=ADV 21 advmod _ _ 18 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 fixed _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 war war NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 32 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 34 advmod _ _ 34 return return VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 violin violin NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl:unmarked _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 seashore seashore NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 play play NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 49 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 65 mark _ _ 50 that that SCONJ IN _ 49 fixed _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 52 very very ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 53 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 54 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 kobolds kobold NOUN NNS Number=Plur 65 nsubj _ _ 56 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 57 nsubj _ _ 57 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 acl:relcl _ _ 58 at at ADP IN _ 60 case _ _ 59 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 obl _ _ 61 of of ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 nmod _ _ 64 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 65 aux _ _ 65 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 66 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 obj _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 68 cc _ _ 68 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 65 conj _ _ 69 to to ADP IN _ 70 case _ _ 70 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 68 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 71 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 72 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **jump up** | past | the youth | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the youth *not said here* | | | | | hastily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **ride** *in a quote* | shall | the youth *= youth* | | | the war | | with the king | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to war=Trajectory | | 4 | **not** **return** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present · do-support | the youth *= youth* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | the youth *= youth* *not said here* | your violin | | the seashore and play on youth | evening | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent violin=Theme to seashore=Destination | | 6 | **live** *in a quote* | present | the sea kobolds | | | the bottom of the ocean | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at bottom=Location | | 7 | **hear** *in a quote* | may | the sea kobolds | youth | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | | 8 | **come** *in a quote* | infinitive | the sea kobolds *not said here* | | you | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to you=Initial\_Location | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/69/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/18/)