--- title: Go down and ask him what this instrument costs; but I won’t kiss him… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Go down and ask him what this instrument costs; but I won’t kiss him again.’ Who acts: you, instrument, I. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/80/) [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 Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/) / 80 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 80 Go down and ask him what this instrument costs; but I won’t kiss him again.’ **Who acts:** you, instrument, I · **What happens:** go down, ask, cost, not kiss · **To what, where:** Prince · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, instrument, 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:pg640:43:80 # text = Go down and ask him what this instrument costs; but I won’t kiss him again.’ 1 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 down down ADV RB _ 1 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 ask ask VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 5 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obj _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 instrument instrument NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 costs cost VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 13 wo will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 14 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 15 advmod _ _ 15 kiss kiss VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 again again ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go down** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | Prince | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **cost** | present | this instrument | | | | | | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme what=Value | | 4 | **not** **kiss** | future | I | Prince | | | again | | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/81/) - ↑ back to [The Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/)