--- title: He lifted his glittering axe and placed himself in front of the Musi… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He lifted his glittering axe and placed himself in front of the Musician, as much as to say: ‘If you touch a hair of his head, beware, for you will have to answer for it to me.’ Who acts: last, you. 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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 (last, you), 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:pg540:50:66 # text = He lifted his glittering axe and placed himself in front of the Musician, as much as to say: ‘If you touch a hair of his head, beware, for you will have to answer for it to me.’ 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 lifted lift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 4 glittering glitter VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 amod _ _ 5 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 placed place VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 7 obj _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 front front NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Musician Musician PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 as as ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 17 as as SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 18 to to PART TO _ 19 mark _ _ 19 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 : : PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 If if SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 touch touch VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 31 beware beware VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 33 for for SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 parataxis _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 answer answer VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 36 xcomp _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lift** | past | last | last's glittering axe | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | | 2 | **glitter** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **place** | past | last *not said here* | last | | front of the Musician | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme in front=Destination | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you | a hair of last's head | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hair=Co-Theme | | 6 | **beware** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **have** | future | you | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | me | | | for head | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | 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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/50/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/50/67/) - ↑ back to [The Marvellous Musician](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/50/)