--- title: Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will… — Grimm's Fairy Stories · tree and pragmatics description: Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse." Who acts: you, time, I, that. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, time, I, that), 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:pg11027:19:110 # text = Bring with you a skein of silk every time that you come, and I will weave a ladder with it, and when that is ready I will descend, and you will take me on your horse." 1 Bring bring VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 with with ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 skein skein NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 8 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 9 det _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 11 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 weave weave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 27 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 advcl _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 descend descend VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bring** | imperative | you *not said here* | a skein of silk | | | time | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skein=Theme | | 2 | **come** | present | every time | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **weave** | future | I | a ladder | | | | with ladder | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product | | 4 | **is** | present | that | | | | | ready *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **descend** | future | I | | | | | | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **take** | future | you | me | | | | on your horse | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme on horse=Destination | 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:** «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/109/) - next →: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/111/) - ↑ back to [The Six Swans](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg11027/19/)