--- title: This time Father Grumbler did not invite the innkeeper’s wife to pic… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: This time Father Grumbler did not invite the innkeeper’s wife to pick up his treasures, but put his own hat under the cock’s beak, so as to catch everything he let fall; and he did not see the husband and wife exchanging glances with each other which said, “That would be a splendid cock to put with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/99/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/) / 99 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 99 This time Father Grumbler did not invite the innkeeper’s wife to pick up his treasures, but put his own hat under the cock’s beak, so as to catch everything he let fall; and he did not see the husband and wife exchanging glances with each other which said, “That would be a splendid cock to put with our basket.” **Who acts:** time, lid, husband, That · **What happens:** not invite, pick up, put, catch, let, fall · **To what, where:** wife, treasures, own hat, beak, everything, husband · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, lid, husband, That), 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:pg3282:9:99 # text = This time Father Grumbler did not invite the innkeeper’s wife to pick up his treasures, but put his own hat under the cock’s beak, so as to catch everything he let fall; and he did not see the husband and wife exchanging glances with each other which said, “That would be a splendid cock to put with our basket.” 1 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 Father Father PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 appos _ _ 4 Grumbler Grumbler PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 flat _ _ 5 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 invite invite VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 innkeeper innkeeper NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 advcl _ _ 14 up up ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 treasures treasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 23 under under ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 to to PART TO _ 32 mark _ _ 32 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 33 everything everything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 obj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 36 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 42 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 exchanging exchange VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 44 acl _ _ 48 glances glance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 49 with with ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 53 obl _ _ 51 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 fixed _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 53 nsubj _ _ 53 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 55 “ " PUNCT `` _ 61 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 61 nsubj _ _ 57 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 61 aux _ _ 58 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 61 cop _ _ 59 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 60 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 61 amod _ _ 61 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 ccomp _ _ 62 to to PART TO _ 63 mark _ _ 63 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 61 acl _ _ 64 with with ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 66 nmod:poss _ _ 66 basket basket NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **invite** | past · do-support | this time | | the innkeeper's wife | | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | | 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | this time *not said here* | lid's treasures | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Topic | | 3 | **put** | past | | lid's own hat | | the cock's beak | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hat=Theme under beak=Destination | | 4 | **catch** | to-infinitive | this time *not said here* | everything | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | | 5 | **let** | past | lid | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **fall** | infinitive | lid *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **not** **see** | past · do-support | lid | the husband and wife | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus | | 8 | **exchange** | gerund | the husband and wife *not said here* | glances | | | | | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glance=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | | | | | with each | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent with each=Manner | | 10 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | That | a splendid cock | | | | | tree rules | | 11 | **put** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | with our basket | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **treasure** | | lid | | | | | | nom treasure «possession transitive»: poss=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 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/100/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/9/)