---
title: Alas! wherefore take me home with you again,’ cried the young woman,… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Alas! wherefore take me home with you again,’ cried the young woman, ‘since the witch is sure to eat me up?’ Who acts: you, witch. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/191/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/) / 191

# The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 191

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Alas! wherefore take me home with you again,’ cried the young woman, ‘since the witch is sure to eat me up?’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, witch · **What happens:** take, cry, be, eat up · **To what, where:** me, young woman

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, witch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:14:191
# text = Alas! wherefore take me home with you again,’ cried the young woman, ‘since the witch is sure to eat me up?’
1	Alas	alas	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	take	take	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me |  | again | with you; home, wherefore *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | the young woman |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | present | the witch |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat up** | to-infinitive | the witch *not said here* | me |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 190](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/190/)
- next →: [sentence 192](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/192/)
- ↑ back to [The Wonderful Birch](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/14/)