--- title: You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in t --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/8/) [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 White Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/) / 8 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 8 You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups. **Who acts:** You, birds, butterflies, bees, sunbeams · **What happens:** not mope, come out, hear, sing, see, flutter · **To what, where:** rooms, green garden, butterflies, flowers, dew drops, rose leaves · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, birds, butterflies, bees), 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:pg640:29:8 # text = You should not mope all day in your rooms, but should come out into the green garden, and hear the birds sing with joy among the trees, and see the butterflies fluttering above the flowers, and hear the bees and insects hum, and watch the sunbeams chase the dew-drops through the rose-leaves and in the lily-cups. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 mope mope VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 rooms room NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 12 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 14 out out ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 15 into into ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 garden garden NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nsubj _ _ 24 sing sing VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 ccomp _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 joy joy NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 27 among among ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 butterflies butterfly NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 35 fluttering flutter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 above above ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 bees bee NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 nsubj _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 insects insect NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 conj _ _ 46 hum hum VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 watch watch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 sunbeams sunbeam NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 52 chase chase VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 56 det _ _ 54 dew dew NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obj _ _ 57 through through ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 61 det _ _ 59 rose rose NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 60 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 59 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 61 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 obl _ _ 62 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 63 in in ADP IN _ 67 case _ _ 64 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 67 det _ _ 65 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 67 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 66 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 cups cup NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **mope** | should | You | | | your rooms | day | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **come out** | should | You *not said here* | | | the green garden | | out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hear** | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **sing** *speech: express* | present | the birds | | | | | with joy; among the trees | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with joy=Theme | | 5 | **see** | infinitive | You *not said here* | the butterflies | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer butterfly=Stimulus | | 6 | **flutter** | gerund | the butterflies *not said here* | | | the flowers | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above flower=Location | | 7 | **hear** | infinitive | You *not said here* | | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 8 | **hum** | present | the bees and insects | | | | | | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | | 9 | **watch** | infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **chase** | present | the sunbeams | the dew drops | | the rose leaves and the lily cups | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent drop=Theme through leaf=Trajectory | 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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/9/) - ↑ back to [The White Duck](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/29/)