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title: When the swans carry you over to the castle, you will pass all these… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When the swans carry you over to the castle, you will pass all these things, all fast asleep, but you must not notice any of them. Who acts: swans, you. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 151

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When the swans carry you over to the castle, you will pass all these things, all fast asleep, but you must not notice any of them.

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**Who acts:** swans, you · **What happens:** carry over, pass, not notice · **To what, where:** you, castle, things, any

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swans, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg14241:26:151
# text = When the swans carry you over to the castle, you will pass all these things, all fast asleep, but you must not notice any of them.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carry	carry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	all	all	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	_
20	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
27	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry over** | present | the swans | you |  | the castle |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to castle=Destination |
| 2 | **pass** | future | you | all things |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thing=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **notice** | must | you | any |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer any=Stimulus |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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