--- title: Then, stooping to pick up a large cheese which lay at his feet, he a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then, stooping to pick up a large cheese which lay at his feet, he added, ‘Go and get a stone like this out of the river, so that we may lose no time in seeing who is the best man.’ Who acts: Stan, large cheese, we, time. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan, with its d --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/66/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/) / 66 # The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 66 Then, stooping to pick up a large cheese which lay at his feet, he added, ‘Go and get a stone like this out of the river, so that we may lose no time in seeing who is the best man.’ **Who acts:** Stan, large cheese, we, time · **What happens:** stoop, pick up, lie, add, go, get · **To what, where:** large cheese, feet, stone, river, best man · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stan, large cheese, we, time), 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:pg641:13:66 # text = Then, stooping to pick up a large cheese which lay at his feet, he added, ‘Go and get a stone like this out of the river, so that we may lose no time in seeing who is the best man.’ 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 stooping stoop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 pick pick VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 up up ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 cheese cheese NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 11 nsubj _ _ 11 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 at at ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 like like ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 22 obl _ _ 27 out out ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 so so SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 36 mark _ _ 33 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 fixed _ _ 34 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 lose lose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ _ 37 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 38 det _ _ 38 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 39 in in SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 acl _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 45 nsubj _ _ 42 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 amod _ _ 45 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stoop** | gerund | Stan *not said here* | | | | then | | tree rules | | 2 | **pick up** | to-infinitive | Stan *not said here* | a large cheese | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheese=Topic | | 3 | **lie** | past | a large cheese | | | Stan's feet | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location | | 4 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Stan | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **get** | infinitive | | a stone | | the river | | like this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stone=Stimulus | | 7 | **lose** | may | we | | | | time | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **see** | gerund | no time *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **is a** | present | | the best man | | | | | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/67/) - ↑ back to [Stan Bolovan](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/13/)