--- title: ‘Listen to me,’ said his wife, ‘we will set only one net close to th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Listen to me,’ said his wife, ‘we will set only one net close to the shore, and then we shall be able to finish up our half-filled cask, which will spoil if it stands open so long.’ Who acts: we, filled cask, net. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/95/) [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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/) / 95 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 95 ‘Listen to me,’ said his wife, ‘we will set only one net close to the shore, and then we shall be able to finish up our half-filled cask, which will spoil if it stands open so long.’ **Who acts:** we, filled cask, net · **What happens:** listen, say, set, be, finish up, fill · **To what, where:** me, wife, one net, filled cask · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, filled cask, net), 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:pg3454:23:95 # text = ‘Listen to me,’ said his wife, ‘we will set only one net close to the shore, and then we shall be able to finish up our half-filled cask, which will spoil if it stands open so long.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Listen listen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 7 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 ccomp _ _ 15 only only ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 net net NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 close close ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 28 advmod _ _ 25 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 27 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 28 cop _ _ 28 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 finish finish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ _ 32 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 33 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 amod _ _ 36 cask cask NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 spoil spoil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 if if SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 ccomp _ _ 44 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ _ 45 so so ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 46 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | infinitive | | | me | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | weather's wife | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **set** | future | we | one net | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient net=Result | | 4 | **is** | shall | we | | | | then | able *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **finish up** | to-infinitive | we *not said here* | our filled cask | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality cask=Eventuality | | 6 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **spoil** | future | our filled cask | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **stand** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | net | | | | | long, open *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «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 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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/96/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/23/)