--- title: Then the Baron took off his gold ring and threw it into the sea, say… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Then the Baron took off his gold ring and threw it into the sea, saying: “Never let me see your face till you can show me that ring;” and he let her go. Who acts: Baron, you, girl. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/44/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/) / [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/) / 44 # English Fairy Tales, The Fish and the Ring, sentence 44 Then the Baron took off his gold ring and threw it into the sea, saying: “Never let me see your face till you can show me that ring;” and he let her go. **Who acts:** Baron, you, girl · **What happens:** take off, throw, say, not let, see, show · **To what, where:** gold ring, ring, sea, Baron, face, girl · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Fish and the Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baron, 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:pg7439:41:44 # text = Then the Baron took off his gold ring and threw it into the sea, saying: “Never let me see your face till you can show me that ring;” and he let her go. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Baron Baron PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 off off ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 7 gold gold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 saying say VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 Never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 20 advmod _ _ 20 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 ccomp _ _ 21 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 till till SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 29 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 iobj _ _ 30 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ” " PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 let let VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take off** | past | the Baron | baron's gold ring | | | then | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 2 | **throw** | past | the Baron *not said here* | ring | | | | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into sea=Result | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Baron *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **not** **let** *in a quote* | infinitive | | the Baron *= baron* | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **see** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Baron *= baron* *not said here* | your face | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus | | 6 | **show** *in a quote* | can | you | that ring | the Baron *= baron* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient ring=Topic | | 7 | **let** | past | baron | girl | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **go** | infinitive | girl *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:** «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/45/) - ↑ back to [The Fish and the Ring](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/41/)