--- title: ‘Yes, mother, I will shoot him,’ said he, and lay there aiming, and… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Yes, mother, I will shoot him,’ said he, and lay there aiming, and then aiming again, for no sooner was the head up and he caught sight of it than it was gone again. Who acts: I, Governor, sight. 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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 (I, Governor, sight), 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:pg540:9:234 # text = ‘Yes, mother, I will shoot him,’ said he, and lay there aiming, and then aiming again, for no sooner was the head up and he caught sight of it than it was gone again. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 8 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 6 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 8 shoot shoot VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 9 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 12 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 13 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 16 advmod _ _ 18 aiming aim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 22 advmod _ _ 22 aiming aim VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 conj _ _ 23 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 26 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 27 det _ _ 27 sooner soon ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 30 advmod _ _ 28 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 vocative _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 caught catch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 35 sight sight NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nmod _ _ 38 than than SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 42 again again ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shoot** | future | I | Governor | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Governor | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **lay up** | infinitive | I *not said here* | | | there | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **aim** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 5 | **aim** | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | then; again | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 6 | **is** | past | | | | | | for the head; soon *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **catch** | past | Governor | sight of sight | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | | 8 | **is** | past | sight | | | | again | gone *property* | tree rules | | 9 | **sight** | | | sight | | | | | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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 233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/233/) - next →: [sentence 235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/235/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)