--- title: I will give you a bushel of money, and will bury your grandmother as… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: I will give you a bushel of money, and will bury your grandmother as if she were my own; only don’t tell about it, or I shall have my head cut off, and that would be very uncomfortable.’ Who acts: I, grandmother, head, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, grandmother, head, that), 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:pg640:41:183 # text = I will give you a bushel of money, and will bury your grandmother as if she were my own; only don’t tell about it, or I shall have my head cut off, and that would be very uncomfortable.’ 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 iobj _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 bushel bushel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 11 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 bury bury VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 grandmother grandmother NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 23 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 24 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 26 about about ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 or or CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 conj _ _ 33 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 xcomp _ _ 36 off off ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 43 nsubj _ _ 40 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 43 cop _ _ 42 very very ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 uncomfortable uncomfortable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **give** | future | I | a bushel of money | you | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient bushel=Theme | | 2 | **bury** | future | I *not said here* | your grandmother | | | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | grandmother | | | | | own *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **not** **tell** *speech: assert* | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | about money | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | | 5 | **have** | shall | I | my head | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cut off** | participle | my head *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **is** | would | that | | | | | uncomfortable *property* | tree rules | 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 182](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/182/) - next →: [sentence 184](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/184/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/41/)