--- title: ‘To-morrow night,’ said they, ‘the horrible creature will come for h… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘To-morrow night,’ said they, ‘the horrible creature will come for his dinner, and the cries you have heard were uttered by the girl before you, upon whom the lot has fallen.’ Who acts: huts, horrible creature, you, girl. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonde --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/188/) [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 Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/) / 188 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 188 ‘To-morrow night,’ said they, ‘the horrible creature will come for his dinner, and the cries you have heard were uttered by the girl before you, upon whom the lot has fallen.’ **Who acts:** huts, horrible creature, you, girl, lot · **What happens:** say, come, hear, utter, fall · **To what, where:** cries · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huts, horrible creature, you, girl), 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:pg641:4:188 # text = ‘To-morrow night,’ said they, ‘the horrible creature will come for his dinner, and the cries you have heard were uttered by the girl before you, upon whom the lot has fallen.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 To to ADP IN _ 5 case _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 horrible horrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 creature creature NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 cries cry NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 25 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 heard hear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 23 acl:relcl _ _ 27 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 28 uttered utter VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 32 before before ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 upon upon ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 36 whom whom PRON WP PronType=Rel 28 obl _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 lot lot NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 36 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | huts *= hut* | | | | night | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **come** | future | the horrible creature | | | | | for creature's dinner | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | you | the cries *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cry=Stimulus | | 4 | **utter** *speech: other* | past · passive | the girl | the cries | | | before you | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | | 5 | **fall** | present · perfect | the lot | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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 187](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/187/) - next →: [sentence 189](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/189/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/4/)