--- title: ‘His house is twenty times larger than mine; he possesses great know… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘His house is twenty times larger than mine; he possesses great knowledge, but he cannot bear the sun and the beautiful flowers, and speaks slightingly of them, for he has never seen them.’ Who acts: house, neighbour. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat( --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/149/) [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 in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/) / 149 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 149 ‘His house is twenty times larger than mine; he possesses great knowledge, but he cannot bear the sun and the beautiful flowers, and speaks slightingly of them, for he has never seen them.’ **Who acts:** house, neighbour · **What happens:** be, possess, not bear, speak, not see · **To what, where:** great knowledge, sun, ladies · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (house, neighbour), 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:pg640:47:149 # text = ‘His house is twenty times larger than mine; he possesses great knowledge, but he cannot bear the sun and the beautiful flowers, and speaks slightingly of them, for he has never seen them.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 larger large ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 0 root _ _ 8 than than ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 possesses possess VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 knowledge knowledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 19 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 bear bear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 speaks speak VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 30 slightingly slightingly ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 for for SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 36 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 38 advmod _ _ 38 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | neighbour's house | | | | time | than mine; large *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **possess** | present | neighbour | great knowledge | | | | | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot knowledge=Theme | | 3 | **not** **bear** | can | neighbour | the sun and the beautiful flowers | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | | 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | neighbour *not said here* | | | | | of ladies *= lady* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **not** **see** | present · perfect | neighbour | ladies *= lady* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | 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 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/148/) - next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/150/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)