--- title: ‘When you have these on,’ he said, ‘you will come to my brother, who… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘When you have these on,’ he said, ‘you will come to my brother, who lives hundreds of miles from here; he is Lord over all the birds in the air—ask him. Who acts: you, Whiteland, brother. 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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, Whiteland, brother), 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:pg540:26:55 # text = ‘When you have these on,’ he said, ‘you will come to my brother, who lives hundreds of miles from here; he is Lord over all the birds in the air—ask him. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 5 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 4 obj _ _ 6 on on ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 12 ‘ ‘ SCONJ IN _ 15 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 ccomp _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 21 nsubj _ _ 21 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 22 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl:unmarked _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 miles mile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 30 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 34 det:predet _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 — - PUNCT : _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 40 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | you | these | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Patient | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Whiteland | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **come** | future | you | | | | | to my brother; over all birds in the air | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to brother=Initial\_Location over bird=Destination | | 4 | **live** | present | my brother | hundreds of miles | | | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | Whiteland | Lord | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | Whiteland | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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 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 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/54/) - next →: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/56/) - ↑ back to [The Three Princesses of Whiteland](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/26/)