--- title: “Don’t you see that cursed fish is trying to drag me in?” — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: “Don’t you see that cursed fish is trying to drag me in?” Who acts: you, cursed fish. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red, 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/pg503/36/62/) [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/) / [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/) / 62 # The Blue Fairy Book, Snow-white and Rose-red, sentence 62 “Don’t you see that cursed fish is trying to drag me in?” **Who acts:** you, cursed fish · **What happens:** not do, see, curse, try, drag · **To what, where:** dwarf · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Snow-white and Rose-red. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cursed fish), 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:pg503:36:62 # text = “Don’t you see that cursed fish is trying to drag me in?” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Do do VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 2 advmod _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 advcl _ _ 6 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 7 cursed curse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 amod _ _ 8 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 trying try VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 ccomp _ _ 11 to to PART TO _ 12 mark _ _ 12 drag drag VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 xcomp _ _ 13 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 12 obj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ? ? PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ” " PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** *in a quote* | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **curse** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **try** *in a quote* | present · progressive | that cursed fish | | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **drag** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | that cursed fish *not said here* | the dwarf *= dwarf* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/63/) - ↑ back to [Snow-white and Rose-red](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg503/36/)