--- title: ‘It is getting late, and I must be going home to my children,’ he sa… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘It is getting late, and I must be going home to my children,’ he said, at length, ‘but if you are here at the same time to-morrow I will give you another treat.’ Who acts: monkey, I, first, you. 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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 (monkey, I, first, 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:pg3454:5:36 # text = ‘It is getting late, and I must be going home to my children,’ he said, at length, ‘but if you are here at the same time to-morrow I will give you another treat.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 getting get VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 ccomp _ _ 5 late late ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 9 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 11 aux _ _ 11 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 conj _ _ 12 home home ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 18 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 at at ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 38 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 parataxis _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 39 iobj _ _ 41 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 42 det _ _ 42 treat treat NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get** | present · progressive | monkey | | | | | late *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **go** | must · progressive | I | | | | | to my children; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to child=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | first | length | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | here *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **give** | future | I | another treat | you | | time | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient treat=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 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/37/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/5/)