--- title: ‘For a hundred years no man has swept this byre,’ said the giant, ‘b… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘For a hundred years no man has swept this byre,’ said the giant, ‘but if by nightfall, when I reach home, thou has not cleaned it so that a golden apple can roll through it from end to end, thy blood shall pay for it.’ Who acts: man, I, golden apple, blood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I, golden apple, blood), 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:pg3454:28:101 # text = ‘For a hundred years no man has swept this byre,’ said the giant, ‘but if by nightfall, when I reach home, thou has not cleaned it so that a golden apple can roll through it from end to end, thy blood shall pay for it.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 For for ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 6 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 swept sweep VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 14 ccomp _ _ 10 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 byre byre NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 18 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 but but CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 20 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 nightfall nightfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 when when SCONJ WRB _ 26 mark _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 reach reach VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 27 home home ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 29 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 cleaned clean VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 33 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 40 mark _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 fixed _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 roll roll VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 advcl _ _ 41 through through ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 48 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 50 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 52 for for ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 55 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sweep** | present · perfect | no man | this byre | | | year | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme byre=Trajectory | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the giant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reach** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I | | | | | by nightfall; home *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **clean** | present · perfect · passive | | thou | | | | | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Patient | | 5 | **roll** | can | a golden apple | | | byre | from end; to end | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme through it=Source from end=Trajectory to end=Destination | | 6 | **pay** | shall | thy blood | | | | | for byre | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for it=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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/102/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/28/)