--- title: ‘Here,’ they said, ‘let us take up our abode, and you, Benjamin, you… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Here,’ they said, ‘let us take up our abode, and you, Benjamin, you are the youngest and weakest, you shall stay at home and keep house for us; we others will go out and fetch food.’ Who acts: hands, us, you, we. 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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 (hands, us, you, we), 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:pg540:41:23 # text = ‘Here,’ they said, ‘let us take up our abode, and you, Benjamin, you are the youngest and weakest, you shall stay at home and keep house for us; we others will go out and fetch food.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 let let VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 10 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 9 obj _ _ 11 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 xcomp _ _ 12 up up ADP RP _ 11 compound:prt _ _ 13 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Benjamin Benjamin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 22 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 ccomp _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 weakest weak ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 29 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 30 aux _ _ 30 stay stay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 31 at at ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 conj _ _ 35 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 42 punct _ _ 39 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 40 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ _ 41 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ _ 43 out out ADV RB _ 42 advmod _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 fetch fetch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 46 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 42 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hands *= hand* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **let** | infinitive | | us | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **take up** | infinitive | us *not said here* | our abode | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | you | | | | | young *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **stay** | shall | you | | | home | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | | 7 | **keep** | infinitive | you *not said here* | house | | | | for us | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | | 8 | **go out** | future | we | | | | | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 9 | **fetch** | present | we *not said here* | food | | | | | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/24/) - ↑ back to [The Twelve Brothers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/41/)