---
title: ‘We are not ill met, then,’ said the man who was driving, ‘for I am… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘We are not ill met, then,’ said the man who was driving, ‘for I am the kind of man who can do that, and I am just looking out for such an apprentice. Who acts: man, I. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/10/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Farmer Weatherbeard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/) / 10

# The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 10

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘We are not ill met, then,’ said the man who was driving, ‘for I am the kind of man who can do that, and I am just looking out for such an apprentice.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** man, I · **What happens:** not meet, say, drive, be, do, look out · **To what, where:** We, man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:43:10
# text = ‘We are not ill met, then,’ said the man who was driving, ‘for I am the kind of man who can do that, and I am just looking out for such an apprentice.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	just	just	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
36	out	out	ADP	RP	_	35	compound:prt	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	40	det:predet	_	_
39	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	apprentice	apprentice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **meet** | present · passive |  | We |  |  | then |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **drive** | past · progressive | the man |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | present | I |  |  |  |  | for the kind; of man | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | can | man | man |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality |
| 6 | **look out** | present · progressive | I |  |  |  |  | for such apprentice | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for apprentice=Theme |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/9/)
- next →: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/11/)
- ↑ back to [Farmer Weatherbeard](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/43/)