--- title: To-morrow morning I shall expect you early; we will go into the coun… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: To-morrow morning I shall expect you early; we will go into the country, take some snuff from my box, and then hear what is being said in air, earth, and water.’ Who acts: I, we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmati --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/37/) [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 Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/) / 37 # The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 37 To-morrow morning I shall expect you early; we will go into the country, take some snuff from my box, and then hear what is being said in air, earth, and water.’ **Who acts:** I, we · **What happens:** expect, go, take, hear, say · **To what, where:** you, water, country, snuff, box, air · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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:pg7277:7:37 # text = To-morrow morning I shall expect you early; we will go into the country, take some snuff from my box, and then hear what is being said in air, earth, and water.’ 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ SpaceAfter=No 2 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 3 morrow morrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 6 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 7 expect expect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 12 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 parataxis _ _ 14 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 19 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 20 det _ _ 20 snuff snuff NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 from from ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ _ 27 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 28 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 31 obj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 30 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 said say VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 ccomp _ _ 32 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **expect** | shall | I | you | | | morning | early *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 2 | **go** | future | we | water | | the country | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **take** | infinitive | | some snuff | | my box | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme from box=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **hear** | infinitive | we *not said here* | | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present · passive | | | | air and earth | | | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: what=Theme in air=Manner | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/38/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/)