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title: Follow me down into the inner cellar, where you have never yet been,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Follow me down into the inner cellar, where you have never yet been, for I always keep it locked and carry the key away with me.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 29

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Follow me down into the inner cellar, where you have never yet been, for I always keep it locked and carry the key away with me.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** follow down, not have, be, lock, carry away · **To what, where:** me, inner cellar, key

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg2435:36:29
# text = Follow me down into the inner cellar, where you have never yet been, for I always keep it locked and carry the key away with me.”
1	Follow	follow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	down	down	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	cellar	cellar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	11	advmod	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
12	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
13	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	19	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
19	keep	keep	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow down** | imperative | you *not said here* | me |  | the inner cellar |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme into cellar=Trajectory |
| 2 | **not** **have** | present | you |  |  |  | yet |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | participle | I |  |  |  |  | always, keep *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **lock** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **carry away** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the key |  |  |  | with me; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent key=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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