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title: Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch it and wring its neck.’ Who acts: you, story. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Canary, sentence 270

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Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch it and wring its neck.’

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**Who acts:** you, story · **What happens:** come, hide, catch, wring · **To what, where:** some, yourselves, story, neck

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Canary. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, story), 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:pg540:40:270
# text = Come, some of you, and hide yourselves, and if it comes again, catch it and wring its neck.’
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	1	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	hide	hide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
9	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
17	catch	catch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	wring	wring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | imperative | you *not said here* | some |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hide** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourselves |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Patient |
| 3 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | story |  |  |  | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | infinitive | you *not said here* | story |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **wring** | infinitive | you *not said here* | story's neck |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |

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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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