--- title: As soon as the King saw the Roe, he said to his huntsman, ‘Now then,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: As soon as the King saw the Roe, he said to his huntsman, ‘Now then, give chase to it all day till evening, but mind and be careful not to hurt it.’ Who acts: King, mind. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/71/) [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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/) / 71 # The Red Fairy Book, Brother and Sister, sentence 71 As soon as the King saw the Roe, he said to his huntsman, ‘Now then, give chase to it all day till evening, but mind and be careful not to hurt it.’ **Who acts:** King, mind · **What happens:** see, say, give, be, not hurt · **To what, where:** Roe, chase, mind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Brother and Sister. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mind), 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:pg540:10:71 # text = As soon as the King saw the Roe, he said to his huntsman, ‘Now then, give chase to it all day till evening, but mind and be careful not to hurt it.’ 1 As as ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 11 advmod _ _ 3 as as SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Roe Roe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 huntsman huntsman NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ _ 18 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 20 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 21 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 to to ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 24 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 25 det _ _ 25 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 26 till till ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 evening evening NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 33 cop _ _ 33 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 34 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 36 advmod _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | the King | the Roe | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer roe=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King | | | | | to King's huntsman; soon *property* | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 3 | **give** | infinitive | | chase | chase | | now; then; day; evening | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chase=Theme to it=Recipient | | 4 | **is** | infinitive | mind | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **not** **hurt** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* | mind | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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 70](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/70/) - next →: [sentence 72](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/72/) - ↑ back to [Brother and Sister](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/10/)