--- title: Then I called to them, “Why don’t you bring out our mare, which is a… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then I called to them, “Why don’t you bring out our mare, which is as tall as two days, and as broad as half a day, and make a shade for yourselves?” Who acts: I, reapers, mare. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World, with its dependency tree and the pragm --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/58/) [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 Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/) / 58 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Finest Liar in the World, sentence 58 Then I called to them, “Why don’t you bring out our mare, which is as tall as two days, and as broad as half a day, and make a shade for yourselves?” **Who acts:** I, reapers, mare · **What happens:** call, not bring out, be, make · **To what, where:** reapers, mare, shade · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Finest Liar in the World. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, reapers, mare), 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:pg641:3:58 # text = Then I called to them, “Why don’t you bring out our mare, which is as tall as two days, and as broad as half a day, and make a shade for yourselves?” 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 7 “ " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 12 advmod _ _ 9 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 10 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 mare mare NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 19 as as ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 broad broad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 28 as as ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 31 det:predet _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 make make VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 for for ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 yourselves yourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ? ? PUNCT . _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ” " PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** *speech: ask* | past | I | | reapers *= reaper* | | then | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | | 2 | **not** **bring out** *in a quote* | present · do-support | reapers *= reaper* | our mare | | | | | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mare=Patient | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | our mare | | | | day | tall *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | infinitive | I *not said here* | a shade | | | | for reapers *= reaper* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent shade=Product for yourselves=Asset | 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 57](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/57/) - next →: [sentence 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/59/) - ↑ back to [The Finest Liar in the World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/3/)