--- title: 'You had better shut your eyes or you may get giddy,' said the bird;… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'You had better shut your eyes or you may get giddy,' said the bird; and the cat, you had never before been off the ground except to climb a tree, did as she was bid. Who acts: You. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/121/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/) / 121 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 121 'You had better shut your eyes or you may get giddy,' said the bird; and the cat, you had never before been off the ground except to climb a tree, did as she was bid. **Who acts:** You · **What happens:** have, shut, get, say, be, climb · **To what, where:** eyes, bird, tree, cat · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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), 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:pg3027:14:121 # text = 'You had better shut your eyes or you may get giddy,' said the bird; and the cat, you had never before been off the ground except to climb a tree, did as she was bid. 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 xcomp _ _ 5 shut shut VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 xcomp _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 12 giddy giddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ 15 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 25 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 26 advmod _ _ 26 before before ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 30 cop _ _ 28 off off ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 appos _ _ 31 except except ADP IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 acl _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 bid bid VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | You | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **shut** | infinitive | You *not said here* | your eyes | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 3 | **get** | may | you | | | | | giddy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the bird | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic | | 5 | **is** | past · perfect | you | | | | | off the ground; before *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **climb** | to-infinitive | | a tree | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tree=Theme | | 7 | **bid** | past · passive · do-support | | the cat | | | | | 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/122/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/14/)