--- title: But, before they started on the journey, the wife whispered to her h… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But, before they started on the journey, the wife whispered to her husband: “Take care to jump over the threshold as quick as you can, or it will be the worse for you.” Who acts: men, wife, care. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/64/) [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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/) / 64 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 64 But, before they started on the journey, the wife whispered to her husband: “Take care to jump over the threshold as quick as you can, or it will be the worse for you.” **Who acts:** men, wife, care · **What happens:** start, whisper, take, jump, be · **To what, where:** journey, husband, care, threshold · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, wife, care), 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:pg3282:20:64 # text = But, before they started on the journey, the wife whispered to her husband: “Take care to jump over the threshold as quick as you can, or it will be the worse for you.” 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 before before SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 4 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ _ 6 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 “ " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 Take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 19 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 jump jump VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 csubj _ _ 22 over over ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 as as ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 quick quick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 27 as as SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 or or CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 36 cop _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 worse bad ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 18 parataxis _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | past | men *= man* | | | the journey | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 2 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | the wife | | wife's husband | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 4 | **jump** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | the threshold | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over threshold=Trajectory | | 5 | **is** *in a quote* | future | care | | | | | for wife's husband *= husband*; bad *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 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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/65/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/20/)