--- title: ‘Now go over fresh water and salt water, over hill and dale, and do… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Now go over fresh water and salt water, over hill and dale, and do not stop until thou comest to where the King’s daughter is,’ said Minnikin to the ship, and off it went in a moment over land and water till the wind whistled and moaned all round about it. Who acts: thou, Minnikin, ship, wind. 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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 (thou, Minnikin, ship, wind), 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:pg540:46:1 # text = ‘Now go over fresh water and salt water, over hill and dale, and do not stop until thou comest to where the King’s daughter is,’ said Minnikin to the ship, and off it went in a moment over land and water till the wind whistled and moaned all round about it. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ _ 3 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 32 ccomp _ _ 4 over over ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 8 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 over over ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 dale dale NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 17 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 stop stop VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 20 until until SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 21 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 22 nsubj _ _ 22 comest come VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 advcl _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 22 obl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 32 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 33 Minnikin Minnikin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 34 to to ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 39 off off ADP IN _ 41 mark _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 45 over over ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 48 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 conj _ _ 49 till till SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 52 whistled whistle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 advcl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 moaned moan VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 52 conj _ _ 55 all all ADV RB _ 56 advmod _ _ 56 round round ADV RB _ 54 advmod _ _ 57 about about ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 54 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 59 . . PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go over** | infinitive | | fresh water and salt water | | hill and dale | now | | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 2 | **not** **stop** | infinitive · do-support | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **come** | present | thou | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | where *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Minnikin | | | | | to the ship | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to ship=Experiencer clause=Topic | | 6 | **go** | past | ship | | | land and water | moment | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme over land=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **whistle** | past | the wind | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **moan** | past | the wind *not said here* | | | | | about wind; round *property* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic | 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: [Mother Holle, part 2, 104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/45/104/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/2/) - ↑ back to [Mother Holle, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/46/)