--- title: On the twelfth day, when the turn came to Benjamin, he noticed a fla… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: On the twelfth day, when the turn came to Benjamin, he noticed a flag waving in the air, but alas! it was not white, but blood red, the sign which told them they must all die. Who acts: turn, flag, alas, blood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turn, flag, alas, blood), 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:pg540:41:18 # text = On the twelfth day, when the turn came to Benjamin, he noticed a flag waving in the air, but alas! it was not white, but blood red, the sign which told them they must all die. 1 On on ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 twelfth twelfth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 9 mark _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 turn turn NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 advcl _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 Benjamin Benjamin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 noticed notice VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 alas ala NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ! ! PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 27 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 32 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 sign sign NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 parataxis _ _ 36 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 iobj _ _ 39 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 41 all all ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 42 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the turn | | | Benjamin | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to benjamin=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **notice** | past | turn | a flag | | | day | | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer flag=Stimulus | | 3 | **wave** | gerund | a flag *not said here* | | | | | in the air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in air=Theme | | 4 | **not** **is** | past | alas | | | | | white *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **sign** | | blood | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the sign | | alas *= ala* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | | 7 | **die** | must | alas *= ala* | | | | | all *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/19/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)