--- title: ‘Follow me, and let us go home together,’ said the snake, and the gi… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Follow me, and let us go home together,’ said the snake, and the girl followed his through the forest and along the green paths, till they came to a great lake, where they stopped to rest. Who acts: you, us, girl, paths. 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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, us, girl, paths), 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:pg3454:21:75 # text = ‘Follow me, and let us go home together,’ said the snake, and the girl followed his through the forest and along the green paths, till they came to a great lake, where they stopped to rest. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Follow follow VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 home home ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 10 together together ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 21 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 22 through through ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 26 along along ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 paths path NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 till till SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 41 advmod _ _ 40 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 42 to to PART TO _ 43 mark _ _ 43 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 44 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | imperative | you *not said here* | me | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | | home, together *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | you *not said here* | the snake | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | | 5 | **follow** | past | the girl | feast's forest and the green paths | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past | paths *= path* | | | a great lake | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **stop** | past | paths *= path* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | | 8 | **rest** | to-infinitive | paths *= path* *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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 74](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/74/) - next →: [sentence 76](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/76/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)