---
title: ‘So he called out, ‘Grandfather, you had better put your tongue here… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘So he called out, ‘Grandfather, you had better put your tongue here, so that the branches shall not touch you.’ Who acts: hare, you, branches. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, 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/pg5615/36/3/)

<!-- 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 Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/) / 3

# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘So he called out, ‘Grandfather, you had better put your tongue here, so that the branches shall not touch you.’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** hare, you, branches · **What happens:** call out, have, put, not touch · **To what, where:** Grandfather, tongue, you

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, you, branches), 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:pg5615:36:3
# text = ‘So he called out, ‘Grandfather, you had better put your tongue here, so that the branches shall not touch you.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	xcomp	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	so	so	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
22	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle | hare | Grandfather |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | you |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | your tongue |  | here |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tongue=Goal |
| 4 | **not** **touch** | shall | the branches | you |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-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 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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/4/)
- ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/36/)