--- title: At last she got up, and said to her husband: “I am too tired to fini… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: At last she got up, and said to her husband: “I am too tired to finish it to-night, so I shall go to bed, and to-morrow I shall only have the cutting and stitching to do.” Who acts: last, I. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/72/) [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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/) / 72 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 72 At last she got up, and said to her husband: “I am too tired to finish it to-night, so I shall go to bed, and to-morrow I shall only have the cutting and stitching to do.” **Who acts:** last, I · **What happens:** get up, say, be, finish, go, have · **To what, where:** husband, stoop, bed, cutting · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last, I), 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:pg3282:29:72 # text = At last she got up, and said to her husband: “I am too tired to finish it to-night, so I shall go to bed, and to-morrow I shall only have the cutting and stitching to do.” 1 At at SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 nsubj _ _ 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 8 advcl _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 15 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 too too ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 17 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 parataxis _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 26 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 ccomp _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 35 case _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 37 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 38 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 cutting cutting NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 stitching stitch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 41 conj _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | last | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | wool's husband | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to husband=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **finish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | stoop | | | night | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | | 5 | **go** *in a quote* | shall | I | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | shall | I | the cutting | | | | to morrow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cutting=Patient | | 7 | **stitch** *in a quote* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/73/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/29/)