--- title: Before to-morrow night all the grain in the kingdom has to be gather… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Before to-morrow night all the grain in the kingdom has to be gathered into one big heap, and if as much as a stalk of corn is wanting I must pay for it with my life.’ Who acts: grain, stalk, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, with its dependenc --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/2/) [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 Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/) / 2 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 2 Before to-morrow night all the grain in the kingdom has to be gathered into one big heap, and if as much as a stalk of corn is wanting I must pay for it with my life.’ **Who acts:** grain, stalk, I · **What happens:** have, gather, want, pay · **To what, where:** much This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grain, stalk, I), 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:pg640:15:2 # text = Before to-morrow night all the grain in the kingdom has to be gathered into one big heap, and if as much as a stalk of corn is wanting I must pay for it with my life.’ 1 Before before ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 grain grain NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 kingdom kingdom NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 12 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 14 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 15 aux:pass _ _ 15 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 xcomp _ _ 16 into into ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 18 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 heap heap NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 22 if if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 as as ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 obj _ _ 25 as as SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 stalk stalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 wanting want VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 advcl _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 pay pay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 35 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | all grain in the kingdom | | | | night | | tree rules | | 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive · passive | all grain in the kingdom *not said here* | | | | | into one big heap | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: into heap=Co-Patient | | 3 | **want** | present · progressive | a stalk of corn | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **pay** | must | I | much | | | | for stalk; with my life | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent much=Asset for it=Theme | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/1/) - next →: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/3/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/15/)