--- title: He got up and had his breakfast, while Peter and Paul lay in bed and… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He got up and had his breakfast, while Peter and Paul lay in bed and made rude remarks, telling him that he would come back quicker than he went, for if they had failed it could not be supposed that he would succeed. Who acts: Paul, Peter. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/48/) [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/) / [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/) / 48 # The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 48 He got up and had his breakfast, while Peter and Paul lay in bed and made rude remarks, telling him that he would come back quicker than he went, for if they had failed it could not be supposed that he would succeed. **Who acts:** Paul, Peter · **What happens:** get up, have, lie, make, tell, come back · **To what, where:** breakfast, bed, rude remarks, Paul · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul, Peter), 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:pg641:24:48 # text = He got up and had his breakfast, while Peter and Paul lay in bed and made rude remarks, telling him that he would come back quicker than he went, for if they had failed it could not be supposed that he would succeed. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 breakfast breakfast NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 while while SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 10 Peter Peter PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 Paul Paul PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 conj _ _ 13 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 18 rude rude ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 remarks remark NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 telling tell VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ _ 22 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 iobj _ _ 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 advcl _ _ 27 back back ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 quicker quick ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 xcomp _ _ 29 than than SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 34 if if SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 42 advmod _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 advcl _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 44 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 45 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 46 aux _ _ 46 succeed succeed VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 42 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | Paul | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **have** | past | Paul *not said here* | Paul's breakfast | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Patient | | 3 | **lie** | past | Peter and Paul | | | bed | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location | | 4 | **make** | past | Peter and Paul *not said here* | rude remarks | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | gerund | Peter and Paul *not said here* | | Paul | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | | 6 | **come back** | would | Paul | | | | | quick *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **go** | past | Paul | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **fail** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect | Peter | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **not** **suppose** | could · passive | | breakfast | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | | 10 | **succeed** | would | Paul | | | | | | vn succeed-74-1 «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 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/pg641/24/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/49/) - ↑ back to [Jesper Who Herded the Hares](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/24/)