--- title: Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country, and since that time, too, you see in the midst of the fair-haired blue-eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls, whose eyes are black and whose skins are the colour of gold. Who acts: you, eyes, skins. A sentence of «The Red Fa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/300/) [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/) / [The Enchanted Canary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/) / 300 # The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 300 Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country, and since that time, too, you see in the midst of the fair-haired blue-eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls, whose eyes are black and whose skins are the colour of gold. **Who acts:** you, eyes, skins · **What happens:** have, be, eat, see · **To what, where:** plenty, country, midst, colour This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eyes, skins), 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:pg540:40:300 # text = Since that time there has always been plenty to eat in that country, and since that time, too, you see in the midst of the fair-haired blue-eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls, whose eyes are black and whose skins are the colour of gold. 1 Since since SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 6 always always ADV RB PronType=Tot 8 advmod _ _ 7 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 cop _ _ 8 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 acl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 det _ _ 13 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 16 since since ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 20 too too ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 midst midst NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 29 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 haired haired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 32 blue blue ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 eyed eyed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 women woman NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nmod _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Flanders Flander PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 40 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 girls girl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 45 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 46 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 parataxis _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 48 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 skins skin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 50 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | participle | | plenty | | | | always *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | | | | that country | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **see** | present | you | | | the midst of the haired eyed women of Flanders a few beautiful girls | time | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **is** | present | eyes | | | | | black *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **is a** | present | the colour's skins | the colour | | | | of gold | 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 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 299](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/299/) - next →: [sentence 301](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/301/) - ↑ back to [The Enchanted Canary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/40/)