--- title: Listen to me; get yourself a set of pipes, and learn to play on them… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Listen to me; get yourself a set of pipes, and learn to play on them as well as you do on your flute, and wherever there are men to hear you, I promise you will never lack money.” Who acts: you, men, I. 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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, men, I), 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:pg2435:10:95 # text = Listen to me; get yourself a set of pipes, and learn to play on them as well as you do on your flute, and wherever there are men to hear you, I promise you will never lack money.” 1 Listen listen VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 6 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 5 obj _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 set set NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 pipes pipe NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 learn learn VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 play play VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 xcomp _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obl _ _ 18 as as ADV RB ExtPos=ADV 15 advmod _ _ 19 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 18 fixed _ _ 20 as as SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 advcl _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 flute flute NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 28 wherever wherever ADV WRB PronType=Int 30 advmod _ _ 29 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 30 expl _ _ 30 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 advcl _ _ 31 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 hear hear VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 promise promise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 lack lack VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 37 ccomp _ _ 42 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ” " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **listen** | imperative | you *not said here* | | me | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to i=Theme | | 2 | **get** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary set=Theme | | 3 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **play** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | on pipes *= pipe* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **do** | present | you | | | your flute | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **does** | present | men | | | there | | wherever *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **hear** | to-infinitive | men *not said here* | you | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | | 8 | **promise** *speech: promise* | present | I | | | | | | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 9 | **not** **lack** | future | you | money | | | | | tree rules | 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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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 94](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/10/94/) - next →: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/10/96/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/10/)