--- title: ‘Farewell, bright sun!’ she cried, stretching out her arms towards i… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Farewell, bright sun!’ she cried, stretching out her arms towards it, and taking another step outside the house; for now the corn had been reaped, and only the dry stubble was left standing. Who acts: sun, dry stubble. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch in the Stone Boa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/212/) [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/) / 212 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch in the Stone Boat(31), sentence 212 ‘Farewell, bright sun!’ she cried, stretching out her arms towards it, and taking another step outside the house; for now the corn had been reaped, and only the dry stubble was left standing. **Who acts:** sun, dry stubble · **What happens:** cry, stretch out, take, reap, leave, stand · **To what, where:** bright sun, arms, step, corn, dry stubble 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 (sun, dry stubble), 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:pg640:47:212 # text = ‘Farewell, bright sun!’ she cried, stretching out her arms towards it, and taking another step outside the house; for now the corn had been reaped, and only the dry stubble was left standing. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Farewell farewell INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 stretching stretch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 15 towards towards ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 taking take VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 11 conj _ _ 20 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 21 det _ _ 21 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ _ 22 outside outside ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 obl _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 32 aux:pass _ _ 32 reaped reap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 stubble stubble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 32 parataxis _ _ 41 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | sun | bright sun | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **stretch out** | gerund | sun *not said here* | sun's arms | | | | towards arm | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent arm=Patient towards it=Recipient | | 3 | **take** | gerund | sun *not said here* | another step | | | | outside the house | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 4 | **reap** | past · perfect · passive | | the corn | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 5 | **leave** | past · passive | | the dry stubble | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stand** | gerund | the dry stubble *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/211/) - next →: [sentence 213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/213/) - ↑ back to [The Witch in the Stone Boat(31)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/47/)