--- title: Every time you come to see me you must bring a skein of silk with yo… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Every time you come to see me you must bring a skein of silk with you, and I will make a ladder of them, and when it is finished I will climb down by it, and you will take me away on your horse.’ Who acts: you, I. 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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, I), 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:pg540:41:140 # text = Every time you come to see me you must bring a skein of silk with you, and I will make a ladder of them, and when it is finished I will climb down by it, and you will take me away on your horse.’ 1 Every every DET DT PronType=Tot 2 det _ _ 2 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 come come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 7 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 obj _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 bring bring VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 skein skein NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 silk silk NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 20 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 21 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 ladder ladder NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux:pass _ _ 31 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 advcl _ _ 32 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 35 down down ADP RP _ 34 compound:prt _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 40 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 43 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 away away ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **come** | present | you | | | | time | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | me | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **bring** | must | you | a skein of silk | | | | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent skein=Theme | | 4 | **make** | future | I | a ladder of hands | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Product | | 5 | **finish** | present · passive | | ladder | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 6 | **climb down** | future | I | | | | | by ladder | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Trajectory | | 7 | **take away** | future | you | me | | | | on your horse; away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | 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 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/141/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)