--- title: ‘My son,’ replied the old man, ‘all this country round here is uninh… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘My son,’ replied the old man, ‘all this country round here is uninhabited; I myself have to wander to distant villages for my living, and even then I do not very often find enough to satisfy my hunger. Who acts: son, I, my. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Ser --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/39/) [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 Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/) / 39 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2, sentence 39 ‘My son,’ replied the old man, ‘all this country round here is uninhabited; I myself have to wander to distant villages for my living, and even then I do not very often find enough to satisfy my hunger. **Who acts:** son, I, my · **What happens:** reply, be, have, wander, not find, satisfy · **To what, where:** old man, distant villages, enough, hunger This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (son, I, my), 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:pg640:31:39 # text = ‘My son,’ replied the old man, ‘all this country round here is uninhabited; I myself have to wander to distant villages for my living, and even then I do not very often find enough to satisfy my hunger. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 15 round round ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 18 advmod _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 uninhabited uninhabited ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 20 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 wander wander VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 for for ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 living living NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 33 even even ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 40 advmod _ _ 35 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 36 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 37 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 40 advmod _ _ 38 very very ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 39 often often ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 41 enough enough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 obj _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 satisfy satisfy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 advcl _ _ 44 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 hunger hunger NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | My son | the old man | | | | all country *obl* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | | 2 | **is** | present | | | | here | | uninhabited *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **wander** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | distant villages | | for my living | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to village=Destination | | 5 | **not** **find** | present · do-support | I | enough | | | then | often *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enough=Topic | | 6 | **satisfy** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | my hunger | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hunger=Experiencer | | 7 | **live** | | my | | | | | | nom living «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **hunger** | | my | | | | | | nom hunger «state intransitive»: 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 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/40/) - ↑ back to [The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/31/)