--- title: “Get off, get off! can’t you see that you are on my legs?” — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Get off, get off! can’t you see that you are on my legs?” Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/74/) [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 Brown Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/) / [The Brown Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/) / 74 # The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 74 “Get off, get off! can’t you see that you are on my legs?” **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** get off, not see, be · **To what, where:** legs This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. 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:pg3282:16:74 # text = “Get off, get off! can’t you see that you are on my legs?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 off off ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 get get VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 6 off off ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ 8 ca can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 9 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 10 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 12 that that SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 legs leg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get off** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **get off** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **not** **see** *in a quote* | can | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you | | | my legs | | | 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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/75/) - ↑ back to [The Brown Fairy Book, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3282/16/)