--- title: Now, when the time came round for the old woman to set out on one of… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now, when the time came round for the old woman to set out on one of these journeys, she gave each maiden work for six days, with the usual warning: “Children, don’t let your eyes wander, and on no account speak to a man, for, if you do, your thread will lose its brightness, and misfortunes of all k --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/7/) [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/) / 7 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 7 Now, when the time came round for the old woman to set out on one of these journeys, she gave each maiden work for six days, with the usual warning: “Children, don’t let your eyes wander, and on no account speak to a man, for, if you do, your thread will lose its brightness, and misfortunes of all kinds will follow.” **Who acts:** time, thread, Children, eyes, you, misfortunes · **What happens:** come round, set out, give, not let, wander, speak · **To what, where:** maiden work, account, brightness · **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 (time, thread, Children, eyes), 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:pg503:26:7 # text = Now, when the time came round for the old woman to set out on one of these journeys, she gave each maiden work for six days, with the usual warning: “Children, don’t let your eyes wander, and on no account speak to a man, for, if you do, your thread will lose its brightness, and misfortunes of all kinds will follow.” 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 when when SCONJ WRB _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 round round ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 to to PART TO _ 13 mark _ _ 13 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 14 out out ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 journeys journey NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 23 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 24 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 nummod _ _ 28 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 warning warning NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 35 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 39 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 40 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 acl:relcl _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 nsubj _ _ 43 wander wander VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 46 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 48 det _ _ 48 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 49 speak speak VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 54 for for SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 56 if if SCONJ IN _ 58 mark _ _ 57 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 60 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 thread thread NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nsubj _ _ 62 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 63 aux _ _ 63 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 64 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 65 nmod:poss _ _ 65 brightness brightness NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 , , PUNCT , _ 73 punct _ _ 67 and and CCONJ CC _ 73 cc _ _ 68 misfortunes misfortune NOUN NNS Number=Plur 73 nsubj _ _ 69 of of ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 71 det _ _ 71 kinds kind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nmod _ _ 72 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 73 aux _ _ 73 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 74 . . PUNCT . _ 73 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 75 ” " PUNCT '' _ 73 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come round** | past | the time | | | | now | for the old woman; round *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **set out** | to-infinitive | the time *not said here* | | | | | on one of this journeys | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **give** | past | thread | each maiden work | | | day | with the usual warning | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | | 4 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | Children *not said here* | | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **wander** *in a quote* | present | your eyes | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **speak** *speech: other* *in a quote* | infinitive | the time *not said here* | | | no account | | to a man | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent | | 7 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **lose** *in a quote* | future | your thread | work's brightness | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brightness=Eventuality | | 9 | **follow** *in a quote* | future | misfortunes of all kinds | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/6/) - next →: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/8/) - ↑ back to [The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/26/)