--- title: The youth hesitated for a little, but presently he heard the birds s… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The youth hesitated for a little, but presently he heard the birds saying from the top of the tree, ‘Go where she calls you, but take care to give no blood, or you will sell your soul.’ Who acts: youth, birds, maiden, you. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/72/) [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 Dragon of the North(2)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/) / 72 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 72 The youth hesitated for a little, but presently he heard the birds saying from the top of the tree, ‘Go where she calls you, but take care to give no blood, or you will sell your soul.’ **Who acts:** youth, birds, maiden, you · **What happens:** hesitate, hear, say, go, call, take · **To what, where:** youth, birds, top, you, care, blood · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, birds, maiden, you), 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:pg640:5:72 # text = The youth hesitated for a little, but presently he heard the birds saying from the top of the tree, ‘Go where she calls you, but take care to give no blood, or you will sell your soul.’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 3 hesitated hesitate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 acl _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 but but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 presently presently ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obj _ _ 14 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 acl _ _ 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 14 ccomp _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 26 advmod _ _ 25 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 calls call VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 31 care care NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 give give VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 30 csubj _ _ 34 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 35 det _ _ 35 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 ccomp _ _ 41 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 soul soul NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 40 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hesitate** | participle | | the youth *not said here* | | | | for a little | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** | past | the youth | the birds | | | | presently *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the birds *not said here* | | | the top of the tree | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **call** | present | maiden | | you | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | | 6 | **take** | infinitive | | care | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | | 7 | **give** | to-infinitive | | no blood | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme | | 8 | **sell** | future | you | your soul | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soul=Theme | 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 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/73/) - ↑ back to [The Dragon of the North(2)](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/5/)