--- title: ‘Yes, I will,’ answered the fisher maiden, blushing very red, ‘but o… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Yes, I will,’ answered the fisher maiden, blushing very red, ‘but only on condition that we seal up the purse and the mantle in the copper vessel and throw them into the sea.’ Who acts: we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier, with its dependency tree and the pra --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/339/) [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 Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/) / 339 # The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 339 ‘Yes, I will,’ answered the fisher maiden, blushing very red, ‘but only on condition that we seal up the purse and the mantle in the copper vessel and throw them into the sea.’ **Who acts:** we · **What happens:** answer, blush, seal up, throw · **To what, where:** fisher, condition, copper vessel, mantle, sea This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg7277:22:339 # text = ‘Yes, I will,’ answered the fisher maiden, blushing very red, ‘but only on condition that we seal up the purse and the mantle in the copper vessel and throw them into the sea.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 fisher fisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 maiden maiden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 blushing blush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 8 advcl _ _ 14 very very ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 only only ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 20 on on ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 24 obj _ _ 23 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 seal seal VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 25 up up ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 mantle mantle NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 34 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 throw throw VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 into into ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | future | | the fisher | | | | maiden *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fisher=Eventuality | | 2 | **blush** | gerund | | | | condition | | red *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **seal up** | present | we | condition | | the copper vessel | | | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent that=Patient purse=Result | | 4 | **throw** | infinitive | we *not said here* | mantle | | | | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into sea=Result | 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 338](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/338/) - next →: [sentence 340](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/340/) - ↑ back to [The Little Soldier](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/22/)