--- title: ‘Don’t boast to your cousins of what you have got, One--two-- Or you… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Don’t boast to your cousins of what you have got, One--two-- Or you’ll find you will catch it uncommonly hot, One--two--’ Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack, 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/pg641/17/48/) [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/) / [Two in a Sack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/) / 48 # The Violet Fairy Book, Two in a Sack, sentence 48 ‘Don’t boast to your cousins of what you have got, One--two-- Or you’ll find you will catch it uncommonly hot, One--two--’ **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** not boast, get, find, catch · **To what, where:** cousins, cousin · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Two in a Sack. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg641:17:48 # text = ‘Don’t boast to your cousins of what you have got, One--two-- Or you’ll find you will catch it uncommonly hot, One--two--’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n’t n't AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 4 boast boast VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 cousins cousin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Rel 7 nmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 -- -- PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 -- -- PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 Or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ’ll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 catch catch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 uncommonly uncommonly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 hot hot ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 -- -- PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **boast** *speech: other* | imperative · do-support | you *not said here* | | your cousins | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to cousin=Recipient | | 2 | **get** | present · perfect | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **find** | future | you | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 4 | **catch** | future | you | cousin | | | | One *obl*; hot *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/49/) - ↑ back to [Two in a Sack](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/17/)