--- title: “Don’t go,” said the boy earnestly; when once they have tasted your… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Don’t go,” said the boy earnestly; when once they have tasted your milk they will never let you leave them, and you will have to serve them all the days of your life.” Who acts: boy, weddings, you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/44/) [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 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/) / 44 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 44 “Don’t go,” said the boy earnestly; when once they have tasted your milk they will never let you leave them, and you will have to serve them all the days of your life.” **Who acts:** boy, weddings, you · **What happens:** not go, say, taste, not let, leave, have · **To what, where:** milk, you, weddings · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, weddings, you), 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:pg3282:21:44 # text = “Don’t go,” said the boy earnestly; when once they have tasted your milk they will never let you leave them, and you will have to serve them all the days of your life.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 10 earnestly earnestly ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 12 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 16 advmod _ _ 13 once once SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 tasted taste VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 22 advcl _ _ 17 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 milk milk NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 22 advmod _ _ 22 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 conj _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the boy | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **taste** | present · perfect | weddings *= wedding* | your milk | | | | | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme milk=Attribute | | 4 | **not** **let** | future | weddings *= wedding* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **leave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | weddings *= wedding* | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 6 | **have** | future | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **serve** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | weddings *= wedding* | | | day | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Attribute | 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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/45/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/21/)