--- title: ‘Put thy finger in the mare’s ear and throw behind thee whatever tho… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Put thy finger in the mare’s ear and throw behind thee whatever thou findest in it,’ and the king’s son found a splinter of grey stone, and threw it behind him, and in a twinkling twenty miles of solid rock lay between them and the giant. Who acts: you, thou, son. 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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 (you, thou, son), 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:pg3454:29:61 # text = ‘Put thy finger in the mare’s ear and throw behind thee whatever thou findest in it,’ and the king’s son found a splinter of grey stone, and threw it behind him, and in a twinkling twenty miles of solid rock lay between them and the giant. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Put put VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 nmod:poss _ _ 4 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 ear ear NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 throw throw VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 12 behind behind ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 14 nsubj _ _ 14 whatever whatever PRON WP PronType=Rel 11 obl _ _ 15 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nsubj _ _ 16 findest find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ’s 's PART POS _ 23 case _ _ 25 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 splinter splinter NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 behind behind ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ _ 43 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 44 nummod _ _ 44 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nmod:unmarked _ _ 45 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 48 lay lay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 49 between between ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ _ 51 and and CCONJ CC _ 53 cc _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 giant giant NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **put** | imperative | you *not said here* | thy finger | | the mare's ear | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent finger=Theme in ear=Destination | | 2 | **throw** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | whatever | | | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent behind whatever=Destination | | 3 | **find** | present | thou | | | ear | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **find** | past | the king's son | a splinter of grey stone | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent splinter=Topic | | 5 | **throw** | past | the king's son *not said here* | splinter | | | | behind son | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme behind he=Destination | | 6 | **lay** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | a twinkling twenty miles of solid rock | | between miles *= mile* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in twinkling=Destination | 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 60](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/60/) - next →: [sentence 62](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/62/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/29/)