--- title: “Well, we shall soon see whether you have watched the meadow or not,… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Well, we shall soon see whether you have watched the meadow or not,” answered the brothers, but when they got there the grass was all standing just as long and as thick as it had been the night before. Who acts: we, you, brothers, walls. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princ --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/28/) [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 Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/) / 28 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 28 “Well, we shall soon see whether you have watched the meadow or not,” answered the brothers, but when they got there the grass was all standing just as long and as thick as it had been the night before. **Who acts:** we, you, brothers, walls, grass · **What happens:** see, watch, answer, get, stand, be · **To what, where:** meadow · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess on the Glass Hill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, you, brothers, walls), 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:pg503:48:28 # text = “Well, we shall soon see whether you have watched the meadow or not,” answered the brothers, but when they got there the grass was all standing just as long and as thick as it had been the night before. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 7 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 7 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 ccomp _ _ 8 whether whether SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 watched watch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 ccomp _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 meadow meadow NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 18 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 all all ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ _ 32 just just ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 31 advmod _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 as as ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 thick thick ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 conj _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 40 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 cop _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 44 before before ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | shall | we | | | | | soon *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **watch** *in a quote* | present · perfect | you | the meadow | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Theme | | 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the brothers | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **get** | past | walls *= wall* | | | there | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **stand** | past · progressive | the grass | | | | | all, long *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | past · perfect | grass | | | | as the night | before *property* | tree rules | 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 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/29/) - ↑ back to [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/)