--- title: And when the season came for the rice crop to be gathered the mortar… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And when the season came for the rice crop to be gathered the mortar was taken down from its shelf, and the grains placed in it for pounding, when, lo and behold! in a twinkling of an eye, they all turned into gold pieces. Who acts: season, grains. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/31/) [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/) / [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/) / 31 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 31 And when the season came for the rice crop to be gathered the mortar was taken down from its shelf, and the grains placed in it for pounding, when, lo and behold! in a twinkling of an eye, they all turned into gold pieces. **Who acts:** season, grains · **What happens:** come, gather, take down, place, pound, turn · **To what, where:** grains, twinkling, mortar, shelf, gold pieces This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (season, grains), 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:pg641:18:31 # text = And when the season came for the rice crop to be gathered the mortar was taken down from its shelf, and the grains placed in it for pounding, when, lo and behold! in a twinkling of an eye, they all turned into gold pieces. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 2 when when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 advcl _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 rice rice NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 crop crop NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 11 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 12 aux:pass _ _ 12 gathered gather VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 advcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 mortar mortar NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux:pass _ _ 16 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 ccomp _ _ 17 down down ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 shelf shelf NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obl _ _ 25 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obl _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 29 pounding pound VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 25 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 33 lo lo INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 behold behold INTJ UH _ 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ! ! PUNCT . _ 33 punct _ _ 37 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 twinkling twinkling NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 44 det _ _ 46 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 47 into into ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 48 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 49 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | past | the season | the grains | | a twinkling of a eye | | for the rice crop | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in twinkling=Location | | 2 | **gather** | to-infinitive · passive | the season *not said here* | | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: clause=Theme | | 3 | **take down** | past · passive | | the mortar | | mortar's shelf | | | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **place** | participle | | the grains *not said here* | | mortar | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination | | 5 | **pound** | gerund | | | | | | | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **turn** | past | grains *= grain* | | | gold pieces | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into piece=Trajectory | 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 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/30/) - next →: [sentence 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/32/) - ↑ back to [The Envious Neighbour](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/18/)