--- title: Next St. John’s eve the man again said that he could not go on in th… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Next St. John’s eve the man again said that he could not go on in this way, losing all the grass in the outlying field year after year, and that one of his sons must just go there and watch it, and watch well too. Who acts: Next eve, man, one. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/6/) [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/) / 6 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Princess on the Glass Hill, sentence 6 Next St. John’s eve the man again said that he could not go on in this way, losing all the grass in the outlying field year after year, and that one of his sons must just go there and watch it, and watch well too. **Who acts:** Next eve, man, one · **What happens:** say, not go on, lose, outlie, go, watch · **To what, where:** way, grass, field · **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 (Next eve, man, one), 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:pg503:48:6 # text = Next St. John’s eve the man again said that he could not go on in this way, losing all the grass in the outlying field year after year, and that one of his sons must just go there and watch it, and watch well too. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 2 St. St. PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod:desc _ _ 3 John John PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 12 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 14 advmod _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 15 on on ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 losing lose VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 23 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 26 outlying outlie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 compound _ _ 27 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 28 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 29 after after ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 34 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nsubj _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 38 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 39 just just ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 ccomp _ _ 41 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 watch watch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 conj _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 40 parataxis _ _ 48 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 47 advmod _ _ 49 too too ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | John St.'s Next eve | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **not** **go on** | could | man | | | this way | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in way=Location | | 3 | **lose** | gerund | man *not said here* | all grass | | | year | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Eventuality | | 4 | **outlie** | gerund | | field | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **go** | must | one of man's sons | | | there | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **watch** | infinitive | one of man's sons *not said here* | grass | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 7 | **watch** | infinitive | | | | | | well *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | 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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/7/) - ↑ back to [The Princess on the Glass Hill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/48/)