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title: But now you must take out your little knife and cut off my head with… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: But now you must take out your little knife and cut off my head with it, and then you must flay me and roll up my hide and put it there under the rock, and beneath the hide you must lay the copper leaf, and the silver leaf, and the golden apple. Who acts: you. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by A
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# The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 7

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But now you must take out your little knife and cut off my head with it, and then you must flay me and roll up my hide and put it there under the rock, and beneath the hide you must lay the copper leaf, and the silver leaf, and the golden apple.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** take out, cut off, flay, roll up, put, lay · **To what, where:** little knife, me, hide, rock, copper leaf

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg540:30:7
# text = But now you must take out your little knife and cut off my head with it, and then you must flay me and roll up my hide and put it there under the rock, and beneath the hide you must lay the copper leaf, and the silver leaf, and the golden apple.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
12	off	off	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	flay	flay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	roll	roll	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
26	up	up	ADP	RP	_	25	compound:prt	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
33	under	under	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	hide	hide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
41	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
42	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	copper	copper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	_
46	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
50	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	leaf	leaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
55	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take out** | must | you | your little knife and my cut head |  |  | now | with head | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Theme |
| 2 | **cut off** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **flay** | must | you | me |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **roll up** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my hide |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hide=Agent |
| 5 | **put** | infinitive | you *not said here* | hide |  | the rock; there |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme under rock=Destination |
| 6 | **lay** | must | you | the copper leaf |  | the hide |  | the silver leaf and the golden apple *obl* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme beneath hide=Destination |

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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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