--- title: Then he said to the wind wizard’s son: “Beg the raven to fly quickly… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he said to the wind wizard’s son: “Beg the raven to fly quickly back to the maiden and tell her to be ready on the ninth night, for then will I come and fetch her away.” Who acts: prince. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/35/) [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 Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/) / 35 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 35 Then he said to the wind wizard’s son: “Beg the raven to fly quickly back to the maiden and tell her to be ready on the ninth night, for then will I come and fetch her away.” **Who acts:** prince · **What happens:** say, beg, fly back, tell, be, come · **To what, where:** son, raven, thread · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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:pg503:26:35 # text = Then he said to the wind wizard’s son: “Beg the raven to fly quickly back to the maiden and tell her to be ready on the ninth night, for then will I come and fetch her away.” 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 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 wizard wizard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’s 's PART POS _ 7 case _ _ 9 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 11 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Beg beg VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 raven raven NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 17 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 19 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 maiden maiden NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 tell tell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 24 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 iobj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 26 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 27 cop _ _ 27 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 28 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 ninth ninth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 fetch fetch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 37 conj _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 away away ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | prince | | the wind wizard's son | | then | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to son=Recipient clause=Topic | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* *in a quote* | infinitive | | the raven | | | | | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent raven=Recipient | | 3 | **fly back** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | to the maiden *result*; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to maiden=Result | | 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | infinitive | | | thread | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | | 5 | **is** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | night | ready *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** *in a quote* | future | prince | | | | then | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fetch away** *in a quote* | infinitive | prince *not said here* | thread | | | | away *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/34/) - next →: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/36/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)