--- title: ‘Oh, if you want to fulfil her prophecies,’ laughed the princess, ‘y… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Oh, if you want to fulfil her prophecies,’ laughed the princess, ‘you have only to let me tie my handkerchief round your ankle, and I will hold you as you hang over the wall of the bridge.’ Who acts: you, me, I. 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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, me, I), 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:pg3454:3:29 # text = ‘Oh, if you want to fulfil her prophecies,’ laughed the princess, ‘you have only to let me tie my handkerchief round your ankle, and I will hold you as you hang over the wall of the bridge.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Oh oh INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 if if SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 5 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 want want VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 7 to to PART TO _ 8 mark _ _ 8 fulfil fulfil VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 9 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 prophecies prophecy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ 13 laughed laugh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 princess princess NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 parataxis _ _ 20 only only ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 xcomp _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 tie tie VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 handkerchief handkerchief NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 round round ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 ankle ankle NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 parataxis _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 obj _ _ 36 as as SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 hang hang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ _ 39 over over ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **want** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **fulfil** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | mother's prophecies | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **laugh** | past | | the princess | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **let** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tie** | infinitive | me *not said here* | my handkerchief | | | | round your ankle | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handkerchief=Patient | | 7 | **hold** | future | I | you | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 8 | **hang** | present | you | | | the wall of the bridge | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over wall=Location | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/30/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/3/)