--- title: Well, that day went by, and when the next came, says Seven Inches to… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Well, that day went by, and when the next came, says Seven Inches to him, ‘Now, you’ll have to set out that way,’ pointing to the sun, ‘and you’ll find the second princess in a giant’s castle this evening, when you’ll be tired and hungry, and the eldest princess to-morrow evening; and you may as wel --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/122/) [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 Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/) / 122 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 122 Well, that day went by, and when the next came, says Seven Inches to him, ‘Now, you’ll have to set out that way,’ pointing to the sun, ‘and you’ll find the second princess in a giant’s castle this evening, when you’ll be tired and hungry, and the eldest princess to-morrow evening; and you may as well bring them here with you. **Who acts:** day, next, you · **What happens:** go by, come, say, have, set out, point · **To what, where:** Seven Inches, way, sun, second princess, castle, inches · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, next, 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:pg3454:10:122 # text = Well, that day went by, and when the next came, says Seven Inches to him, ‘Now, you’ll have to set out that way,’ pointing to the sun, ‘and you’ll find the second princess in a giant’s castle this evening, when you’ll be tired and hungry, and the eldest princess to-morrow evening; and you may as well bring them here with you. 1 Well well INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 4 det _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 by by ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 9 when when SCONJ WRB _ 12 mark _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 nsubj _ _ 12 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 15 Seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 Inches inch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 out out ADP RP _ 27 compound:prt _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ’ ' SYM SYM _ 33 punct _ _ 33 pointing point VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 38 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 parataxis _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 45 amod _ _ 45 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ _ 46 in in ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’s 's PART POS _ 48 case _ _ 50 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 51 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 52 det _ _ 52 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 when when SCONJ WRB _ 58 mark _ _ 55 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 57 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 58 cop _ _ 58 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 parataxis _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 hungry hungry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 65 cc _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 65 det _ _ 64 eldest eld ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 65 amod _ _ 65 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 66 to to ADP IN _ 69 case _ SpaceAfter=No 67 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 66 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 compound _ _ 69 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 65 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 70 ; ; PUNCT : _ 76 punct _ _ 71 and and CCONJ CC _ 76 cc _ _ 72 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 76 nsubj _ _ 73 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 76 aux _ _ 74 as as ADV RB ExtPos=CCONJ 76 cc _ _ 75 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 74 fixed _ _ 76 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 77 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 76 obj _ _ 78 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 76 advmod _ _ 79 with with ADP IN _ 80 case _ _ 80 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 76 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 81 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go by** | past | that day | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **come** | past | the next | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | Seven Inches | | | | to marble | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | future | you | | | | now | | tree rules | | 5 | **set out** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | that way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **point** | gerund | you *not said here* | | the sun | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient | | 7 | **find** | future | you | the second princess | | a giant's castle | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Topic | | 8 | **is** | future | you | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **bring** | may | you | inches *= inch* | | here | | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent they=Theme | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/121/) - next →: [sentence 123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/123/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/10/)