--- title: You must creep up close to them, and as one of them passes the eye t… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: You must creep up close to them, and as one of them passes the eye to the other you must seize it, and refuse to give it up till they have told you the way to the Three Fairies of the Garden, and _they_ will give you the Cap of Darkness and the Sword of Sharpness, and show you how to wing beyond thi --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/43/) [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 Blue Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/) / [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/) / 43 # The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 43 You must creep up close to them, and as one of them passes the eye to the other you must seize it, and refuse to give it up till they have told you the way to the Three Fairies of the Garden, and \_they\_ will give you the Cap of Darkness and the Sword of Sharpness, and show you how to wing beyond this world to the land of the Terrible Head.” **Who acts:** You, one, roads · **What happens:** creep up, pass, seize, refuse, not give up, tell · **To what, where:** eye, other, north, roads, you, Cap · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, one, roads), 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:pg503:27:43 # text = You must creep up close to them, and as one of them passes the eye to the other you must seize it, and refuse to give it up till they have told you the way to the Three Fairies of the Garden, and _they_ will give you the Cap of Darkness and the Sword of Sharpness, and show you how to wing beyond this world to the land of the Terrible Head.” 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 creep creep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 up up ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 6 to to ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 14 nsubj _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nmod _ _ 14 passes pass VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 to to ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 obl _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 21 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 22 seize seize VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 conj _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 refuse refuse VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 xcomp _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 till till SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 32 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 33 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 35 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 34 iobj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 41 nummod _ _ 41 Fairies fairy NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Garden Garden PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 47 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 _ _ PUNCT NFP _ 48 punct _ _ 50 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 51 aux _ _ 51 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 52 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 51 iobj _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Cap Cap PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 iobj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 Darkness Darkness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nmod _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 58 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 59 Sword Sword PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 conj _ _ 60 of of ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 61 Sharpness Sharpness PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 62 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 63 and and CCONJ CC _ 64 cc _ _ 64 show show VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 65 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 64 iobj _ _ 66 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 67 advmod _ _ 67 to to ADP TO _ 68 case _ _ 68 wing wing NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 69 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 71 case _ _ 70 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 71 det _ _ 71 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 68 nmod _ _ 72 to to ADP IN _ 74 case _ _ 73 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 74 det _ _ 74 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 64 obl _ _ 75 of of ADP IN _ 78 case _ _ 76 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 78 det _ _ 77 Terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 78 amod _ _ 78 Head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 74 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 79 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 80 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep up** | must | You | | | | | close *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **pass** | present | one of roads | the eye | the other | | | | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent eye=Theme to other=Recipient | | 3 | **seize** | must | you | north | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **refuse** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **not** **give up** | to-infinitive | | north | | | | | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | | 6 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · perfect · passive | | roads *= road* | you | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **give** | future | roads *= road* | | the Cap of Darkness and the Sword of Sharpness | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient cap=Theme | | 8 | **show** | infinitive | | | you | | | to wing beyond this world; to the land of the Terrible Head | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Topic to wing=Recipient | 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 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/44/) - ↑ back to [The Terrible Head](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/27/)