--- title: All the time that this wise mother could spare from filling her son… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: All the time that this wise mother could spare from filling her son with hatred for all womenkind she passed in giving him a love of the pleasures of the chase, which henceforth became his chief joy. Who acts: wise mother, mother, chase, man. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/4/) [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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/) / 4 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 4 All the time that this wise mother could spare from filling her son with hatred for all womenkind she passed in giving him a love of the pleasures of the chase, which henceforth became his chief joy. **Who acts:** wise mother, mother, chase, man · **What happens:** spare, fill, pass, give, become, love · **To what, where:** time, son, womenkind, love, man, chief joy This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise mother, mother, chase, man), 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:pg640:16:4 # text = All the time that this wise mother could spare from filling her son with hatred for all womenkind she passed in giving him a love of the pleasures of the chase, which henceforth became his chief joy. 1 All all DET PDT PronType=Tot 3 det:predet _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 5 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 det _ _ 6 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 spare spare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 10 from from SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 filling fill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hatred hatred NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 for for ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 18 womenkind womenkind NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 21 in in SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 giving give VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 iobj _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 pleasures pleasure NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 chase chase NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 nsubj _ _ 34 henceforth henceforth ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spare** | could | this wise mother | all time *not said here* | | | | | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent time=Asset | | 2 | **fill** | gerund | this wise mother *not said here* | mother's son | | | | with hatred; for all womenkind | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent son=Patient with hatred=Instrument | | 3 | **pass** | past | mother | all womenkind *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme womenkind=Trajectory | | 4 | **give** | gerund | mother *not said here* | a love of the pleasures of the chase | man | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient love=Theme | | 5 | **become** | past | the chase | man's chief joy | | | | henceforth *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **love** | | | the pleasures of the chase | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 7 | **please** | | | the chase | | | | | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **joy** | | man | | | | | | nom joy «feeling transitive»: 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 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/5/) - ↑ back to [The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/16/)