--- title: “Well, well, I will soon find a cure for that,” said the giant, so h… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, well, I will soon find a cure for that,” said the giant, so he called to his hill-borer to come and bore through the mountain so that the river-sucker might be able to drink up the water again. Who acts: I, giant, river sucker. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-ma --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Master-maid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/) / 19 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 2, sentence 19 “Well, well, I will soon find a cure for that,” said the giant, so he called to his hill-borer to come and bore through the mountain so that the river-sucker might be able to drink up the water again. **Who acts:** I, giant, river sucker · **What happens:** find, say, call, come, bear, be · **To what, where:** cure, giant, hill borer, mountain, water · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, giant, river sucker), 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:pg503:18:19 # text = “Well, well, I will soon find a cure for that,” said the giant, so he called to his hill-borer to come and bore through the mountain so that the river-sucker might be able to drink up the water again. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 well well INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 8 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 9 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ” " PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 24 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 25 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 26 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 borer borer NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 29 mark _ _ 29 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 bore bear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 32 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 35 so so SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 38 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 39 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 sucker sucker NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 41 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 42 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 43 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 advcl _ _ 44 to to PART TO _ 45 mark _ _ 45 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 43 xcomp _ _ 46 up up ADP RP _ 45 compound:prt _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 49 again again ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** *in a quote* | future | I | a cure | | | | for that; soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cure=Theme for that=Beneficiary | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the giant | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **call** | past | giant | | giant's hill borer | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to borer=Recipient | | 4 | **come** | to-infinitive | giant *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bear** | past | giant *not said here* | | | the mountain | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is** | might | the river sucker | | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **drink up** | to-infinitive | the river sucker *not said here* | the water | | | again | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/20/) - ↑ back to [The Master-maid, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/18/)