--- title: When a year had passed a beautiful son was born to her, and she thou… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: When a year had passed a beautiful son was born to her, and she thought no more of the little man, till all of a sudden one day he stepped into her room and said: “Now give me what you promised.” Who acts: year, daughter, man, 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 (year, daughter, man, 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:pg503:13:216 # text = When a year had passed a beautiful son was born to her, and she thought no more of the little man, till all of a sudden one day he stepped into her room and said: “Now give me what you promised.” 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 9 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 10 born bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 17 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 18 det _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 till till ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 32 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 33 into into ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 “ " PUNCT `` _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 41 advmod _ _ 41 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 41 iobj _ _ 43 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 45 obj _ _ 44 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 promised promise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past · perfect | a year | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **bear** | past · passive | | a beautiful son | daughter | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | daughter | no more | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=Theme | | 4 | **step** | past | man | | | daughter's room | till all | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | man *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **give** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | man | | now | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 7 | **promise** *speech: promise* *in a quote* | past | you | | | | | | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent what=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/215/) - next →: [sentence 217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/217/) - ↑ back to [The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/)