--- title: But she bade her son eat and drink what was before him, and said tha… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But she bade her son eat and drink what was before him, and said that the poor young man was much to be pitied, and that the sun had granted him his life in order that he might consult the wind. Who acts: mother, son, poor young man, sun. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuf --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/64/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/) / 64 # The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 64 But she bade her son eat and drink what was before him, and said that the poor young man was much to be pitied, and that the sun had granted him his life in order that he might consult the wind. **Who acts:** mother, son, poor young man, sun · **What happens:** bade, eat, drink, say, be, pity · **To what, where:** sun, order, wind · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, son, poor young man, sun), 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:pg7277:20:64 # text = But she bade her son eat and drink what was before him, and said that the poor young man was much to be pitied, and that the sun had granted him his life in order that he might consult the wind. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 bade bade VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 drink drink VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 9 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 8 obj _ _ 10 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 11 before before ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 16 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 18 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 22 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 ccomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 24 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 25 aux:pass _ _ 25 pitied pity VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj:pass _ _ 31 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 granted grant VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ _ 33 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obj _ _ 34 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 consult consult VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 acl _ _ 42 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 43 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bade** | past | mother | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | infinitive | mother's son | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **drink** | infinitive | mother's son *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | mother *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is** | past | the poor young man | | | | | much *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **pity** | to-infinitive · passive | the poor young man *not said here* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | | 7 | **grant** | past · perfect · passive | | the sun | | order | | | tree rules | | 8 | **consult** | might | sun | the wind | | | | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/63/) - next →: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/65/) - ↑ back to [The Snuff-box](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/20/)