--- title: “Yes, father, willingly; only wait till daylight, then I’ll set out… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Yes, father, willingly; only wait till daylight, then I’ll set out and learn to shudder, and in that way I shall be master of an art which will gain me a living.” Who acts: you, Father, master. 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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, Father, master), 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:pg503:13:45 # text = “Yes, father, willingly; only wait till daylight, then I’ll set out and learn to shudder, and in that way I shall be master of an art which will gain me a living.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 vocative _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 willingly willingly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 wait wait VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 10 till till ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 daylight daylight NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 14 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ’ll 'll ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 set set VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 learn learn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 shudder shudder NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 26 det _ _ 26 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 28 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 29 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 cop _ _ 30 master master NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 art art NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ _ 34 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 gain gain VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl:relcl _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **wait** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | till daylight | father *vocative* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **set out** *in a quote* | past | Father | | | | then | 'll *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **learn** *in a quote* | infinitive | Father *not said here* | shudder | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shudder=Topic | | 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | shall | Father | master | | that way | | of a art | tree rules | | 5 | **gain** *in a quote* | future | master | a living | Father | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary living=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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/13/46/) - ↑ 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/)