--- title: ‘If it’s as you say, you may take as much rampion away with you as y… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If it’s as you say, you may take as much rampion away with you as you like, but on one condition only—that you give me the child your wife will shortly bring into the world. Who acts: anger, you, wife. 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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 (anger, you, wife), 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:pg540:41:114 # text = ‘If it’s as you say, you may take as much rampion away with you as you like, but on one condition only—that you give me the child your wife will shortly bring into the world. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 5 as as SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 csubj _ _ 12 as as ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 rampion rampion NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 11 obl _ _ 18 as as SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 19 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 like like VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 on on ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 25 nummod _ _ 25 condition condition NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 26 only only ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 — - PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 that that SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 give give VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 31 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 iobj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 iobj _ _ 34 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 37 shortly shortly ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 advcl _ _ 39 into into ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | anger | | | | | say *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **take** | may | you | much rampion | | | | with you; away *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rampion=Theme | | 3 | **like** | present | you | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **give** | present | you | | the child | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient child=Theme | | 5 | **bring** | future | your wife | | | the world | | shortly *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into world=Destination | 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 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/113/) - next →: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/115/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)