--- title: Then he begged him, for God’s sake, to take the mill back again, and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he begged him, for God’s sake, to take the mill back again, and that in an instant, for, said he: “If it grind one hour more the whole district will be destroyed by herrings and pottage.” Who acts: Mischief, instant, herrings. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/49/) [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/) / [Why the Sea Is Salt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/) / 49 # The Blue Fairy Book, Why the Sea Is Salt, sentence 49 Then he begged him, for God’s sake, to take the mill back again, and that in an instant, for, said he: “If it grind one hour more the whole district will be destroyed by herrings and pottage.” **Who acts:** Mischief, instant, herrings · **What happens:** beg, take back, say, grind, destroy · **To what, where:** Man, mill, whole district · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Why the Sea Is Salt. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mischief, instant, herrings), 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:pg503:20:49 # text = Then he begged him, for God’s sake, to take the mill back again, and that in an instant, for, said he: “If it grind one hour more the whole district will be destroyed by herrings and pottage.” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mill mill NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 back back ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 16 again again ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 nsubj _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 instant instant NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 for for SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 29 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 If if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grind grind VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 33 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 34 nummod _ _ 34 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 41 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 district district NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 destroyed destroy VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 advcl _ _ 42 by by ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 herrings herring NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obl _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 pottage pottage NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Mischief | | Man | | then | for God's sake | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient for sake=Topic | | 2 | **take back** | to-infinitive | | the mill | | | again | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mill=Theme | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mischief | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grind** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | instant | | | | hour | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **destroy** *in a quote* | future · passive | herrings and pottage | the whole district | | | | | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/50/) - ↑ back to [Why the Sea Is Salt](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/20/)