--- title: Tell them that you are skilled in brightening silver and gold, and i… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Tell them that you are skilled in brightening silver and gold, and in the end they will take you as servant, and if you are careful to please them they will give you the White Sword of Light to make bright and shining. Who acts: you, Women. 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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, Women), 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:pg3027:7:77 # text = Tell them that you are skilled in brightening silver and gold, and in the end they will take you as servant, and if you are careful to please them they will give you the White Sword of Light to make bright and shining. 1 Tell tell VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 1 iobj _ _ 3 that that SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 5 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 6 skilled skilled ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 ccomp _ _ 7 in in SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 8 brightening brighten VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 6 advcl _ _ 9 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ _ 21 as as ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 servant servant NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 25 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 careful careful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 advcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 please please VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 conj _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 White white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 Sword Sword PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 iobj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Light light NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 advcl _ _ 43 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 xcomp _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 shining shine VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 43 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | Women *= woman* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | | 2 | **is** | present | you | | | | | skilled *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **brighten** | gerund | you *not said here* | silver and gold | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent silver=Patient | | 4 | **take** | future | Women *= woman* | you | | | in the end | as servant | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent you=Theme as servant=Attribute | | 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | careful *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **please** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | Women *= woman* | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | | 7 | **give** | future | Women *= woman* | | the White Sword of Light | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient sword=Theme | | 8 | **make** | to-infinitive | Women *= woman* *not said here* | | | | | bright *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 9 | **shine** | gerund | Women *= woman* *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/76/) - next →: [sentence 78](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/78/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/7/)