--- title: Then he heard a woman’s voice say, ‘My son, go you and lift your fat… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then he heard a woman’s voice say, ‘My son, go you and lift your father’s arm up on the bench, but don’t do it so rough!y as your brother did.’ Who acts: king, son, brother. 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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 (king, son, brother), 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:pg5615:34:19 # text = Then he heard a woman’s voice say, ‘My son, go you and lift your father’s arm up on the bench, but don’t do it so rough!y as your brother did.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ’s 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 8 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 18 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’s 's PART POS _ 19 case _ _ 21 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 22 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 do do AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 30 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 29 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 so so ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 y y NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 39 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | king | a woman's voice | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | My son | you | | | | | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme | | 4 | **lift** | infinitive | My son *not said here* | your father's arm | | the bench | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arm=Theme on bench=Destination | | 5 | **not** **do** | infinitive · do-support | My son *not said here* | arm | | | | rough y *obl* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | | 6 | **do** | past | your brother | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/20/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/34/)