--- title: ‘Now,’ she said, ‘thou shalt go into the castle, and let the Trolls… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Now,’ she said, ‘thou shalt go into the castle, and let the Trolls beat thee one night for each of us, and if thou canst but endure that, thou wilt set us free.’ Who acts: youth, thou, Trolls. 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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 (youth, thou, Trolls), 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:pg540:26:20 # text = ‘Now,’ she said, ‘thou shalt go into the castle, and let the Trolls beat thee one night for each of us, and if thou canst but endure that, thou wilt set us free.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 11 nsubj _ _ 10 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 castle castle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 Trolls troll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 beat beat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 xcomp _ _ 21 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 20 obj _ _ 22 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 23 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 24 for for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 20 obl _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 if if SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 31 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 nsubj _ _ 32 canst can AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 33 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 endure endure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 35 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 34 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 37 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 39 nsubj _ _ 38 wilt will AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux _ _ 39 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 conj _ _ 40 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ _ 41 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | youth | | | | now | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | shall | thou | | | the castle | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into castle=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **let** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **beat** | present | the Trolls | thee | | | night | for each | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | | 5 | **endure** | can | | that | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme that=Circumstance | | 6 | **set** | future | thou | us | | | | free *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient we=Result | 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/19/) - next →: [sentence 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/21/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princesses of Whiteland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/)