--- title: ‘Why, where is your reverence going so fast?’ cried he; ‘don’t forge… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Why, where is your reverence going so fast?’ cried he; ‘don’t forget there is to be a christening to-day;’ and he ran after him, caught him by the sleeve, and hung on to it himself: As the five of them trotted along in this fashion one after the other, two peasants were coming from their work with --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/42/) [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 Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/) / 42 # The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 42 ‘Why, where is your reverence going so fast?’ cried he; ‘don’t forget there is to be a christening to-day;’ and he ran after him, caught him by the sleeve, and hung on to it himself: As the five of them trotted along in this fashion one after the other, two peasants were coming from their work with their hoes. **Who acts:** reverence, christening, two peasants, girls · **What happens:** be, go, cry, not forget, run, catch · **To what, where:** reverence, christening, sleeve, fashion, work · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reverence, christening, two peasants, girls), 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:pg540:48:42 # text = ‘Why, where is your reverence going so fast?’ cried he; ‘don’t forget there is to be a christening to-day;’ and he ran after him, caught him by the sleeve, and hung on to it himself: As the five of them trotted along in this fashion one after the other, two peasants were coming from their work with their hoes. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 7 advmod _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 reverence reverence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 7 acl _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 13 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 19 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 forget forget VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 20 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 21 expl _ _ 21 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 ccomp _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 23 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 cop _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 christening christening NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 34 after after ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 35 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 38 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 by by ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 sleeve sleeve NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 44 cc _ _ 44 hung hang VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 45 on on ADP RP _ 44 compound:prt _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 obl _ _ 48 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 44 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 : : PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 50 As as ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 55 obl _ _ 53 of of ADP IN _ 54 case _ _ 54 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nmod _ _ 55 trotted trot VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 56 along along ADV RB _ 55 advmod _ _ 57 in in ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 59 det _ _ 59 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 60 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 59 flat _ _ 61 after after ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 64 , , PUNCT , _ 68 punct _ _ 65 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 66 nummod _ _ 66 peasants peasant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 nsubj _ _ 67 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 68 aux _ _ 68 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 55 advcl _ _ 69 from from ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 71 nmod:poss _ _ 71 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 obl _ _ 72 with with ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 74 nmod:poss _ _ 74 hoes hoe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 68 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | your reverence | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **go** | gerund | your reverence *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | your reverence | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **not** **forget** | infinitive · do-support | your reverence *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | a christening | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** | to-infinitive | | a christening | | | day | | tree rules | | 7 | **run** | past | christening | | | | after reverence | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **catch** | past | your reverence *not said here* | reverence | | | | by the sleeve | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 9 | **hang on** | participle | your reverence *not said here* | reverence | sleeve | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **trot** | past | your reverence *not said here* | | | this fashion | after the other | as the five of girls; along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Trajectory | | 11 | **come** | past · progressive | two peasants | | | girls's work | | with girls's hoes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from work=Initial\_Location | | 12 | **work** | | girls *= girl* | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/43/) - ↑ back to [The Golden Goose](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/48/)