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title: When you have got there, just turn the shoes so that the toes point… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When you have got there, just turn the shoes so that the toes point this way, and then they will come home again of their own accord.’ Who acts: you, toes. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 56

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When you have got there, just turn the shoes so that the toes point this way, and then they will come home again of their own accord.’

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**Who acts:** you, toes · **What happens:** get, turn, point, come · **To what, where:** shoes, way

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

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**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:pg540:26:56
# text = When you have got there, just turn the shoes so that the toes point this way, and then they will come home again of their own accord.’
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	csubj	_	_
5	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	15	mark	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	fixed	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	toes	toe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	point	point	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	23	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	home	home	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	again	again	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	accord	accord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **turn** | imperative | you *not said here* | the shoes |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme |
| 3 | **point** | present | the toes | this way |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Patient |
| 4 | **come** | future | toes *= toe* |  |  |  | then; again | of toes's own accord; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of accord=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**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.

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