--- title: Only say good-by to all your brothers and sisters the night before y… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Only say good-by to all your brothers and sisters the night before you come away, and when you have gone to bed turn this ring round upon your finger and say firmly: ‘I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.’ Who acts: you, 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, 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:pg503:16:20 # text = Only say good-by to all your brothers and sisters the night before you come away, and when you have gone to bed turn this ring round upon your finger and say firmly: ‘I wish to go back to my palace and see my Beast again.’ 1 Only only ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 by by ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 9 det:predet _ _ 8 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 before before SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 20 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 26 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 28 det _ _ 28 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 round round ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 30 upon upon ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 32 nmod:poss _ _ 32 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 35 firmly firmly ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ _ 37 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 back back ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 to to ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 conj _ _ 48 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 49 nmod:poss _ _ 49 Beast Beast PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 obj _ _ 50 again again ADV RB _ 47 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | good | | | night | by your brothers and sisters | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent good=Topic | | 2 | **come away** | present | you | | | | | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **go** | present · perfect | you | | | bed | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **turn** | present | | this ring | | | | upon your finger; round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | | | | | | firmly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wish** | present | I | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **go back** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | to my palace *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to palace=Result | | 8 | **see** | infinitive | I *not said here* | my Beast | | | again | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus | 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/21/) - ↑ back to [Beauty and the Beast, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/16/)