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title: You have only got to ride me back to the same river that we went to… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: You have only got to ride me back to the same river that we went to yesterday, and I will plunge into it and take my proper shape again. Who acts: You, same river, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 45

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You have only got to ride me back to the same river that we went to yesterday, and I will plunge into it and take my proper shape again.

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**Who acts:** You, same river, I · **What happens:** get, ride back, go, plunge, take · **To what, where:** me, same river, river, proper shape

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, same river, I), 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:pg2435:14:45
# text = You have only got to ride me back to the same river that we went to yesterday, and I will plunge into it and take my proper shape again.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	only	only	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	back	back	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	yesterday	yesterday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	plunge	plunge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
23	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	again	again	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | You |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **ride back** | to-infinitive | You *not said here* | me |  | the same river |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme to river=Trajectory |
| 3 | **go** | past | the same river |  |  |  | yesterday |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **plunge** | future | I |  |  | river |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into it=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **take** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my proper shape |  |  | again |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |

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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:** «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.

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