--- title: “I see I shan't have to kill you to-night, my dear,” says he; “you'l… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: “I see I shan't have to kill you to-night, my dear,” says he; “you'll have your food and your flax in the morning,” says he, and away he goes. Who acts: I, you, husband. A sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/75/) [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/) / [Tom Tit Tot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/) / 75 # English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 75 “I see I shan't have to kill you to-night, my dear,” says he; “you'll have your food and your flax in the morning,” says he, and away he goes. **Who acts:** I, you, husband · **What happens:** see, not have, kill, say, have, go · **To what, where:** you, husband, food · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, husband), 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:pg7439:5:75 # text = “I see I shan't have to kill you to-night, my dear,” says he; “you'll have your food and your flax in the morning,” says he, and away he goes. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 sha sha AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 6 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 8 to to PART TO _ 9 mark _ _ 9 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 dear dear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ” " PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 19 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 “ " PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ _ 26 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 flax flax NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ” " PUNCT '' _ 36 punct _ _ 36 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 away away ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 41 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 42 goes go VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 36 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** *in a quote* | present | I | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **not** **have** *in a quote* | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | you | | | night | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | husband | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **have** *in a quote* | future | you | your food and your flax in the morning | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | | husband | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | | 7 | **go** | present | husband | | | | | away *property* | 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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/76/) - ↑ back to [Tom Tit Tot](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/5/)