---
title: ‘Well, now I have no time to stay with you any longer,’ said the Wes… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well, now I have no time to stay with you any longer,’ said the West Wind, ‘for I must first go and tear down a bit of spruce fir before I go to the bleaching-ground to dry the clothes; but just go along the side of the hill, and you will come to some girls who are standing there washing clothes, a
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/166/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Red Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/) / [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/) / 166

# The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 166

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
‘Well, now I have no time to stay with you any longer,’ said the West Wind, ‘for I must first go and tear down a bit of spruce fir before I go to the bleaching-ground to dry the clothes; but just go along the side of the hill, and you will come to some girls who are standing there washing clothes, and then you will not have to walk far before you are at Soria Moria Castle.’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** I, West Wind, you, girls · **What happens:** have, stay, say, go, tear down, dry · **To what, where:** bit, bleaching ground, clothes, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, West Wind, you, girls), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg540:6:166
# text = ‘Well, now I have no time to stay with you any longer,’ said the West Wind, ‘for I must first go and tear down a bit of spruce fir before I go to the bleaching-ground to dry the clothes; but just go along the side of the hill, and you will come to some girls who are standing there washing clothes, and then you will not have to walk far before you are at Soria Moria Castle.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	any	any	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
17	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Wind	Wind	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	advmod	_	_
27	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	ccomp	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	tear	tear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bit	bit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	spruce	spruce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	bleaching	bleaching	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	dry	dry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
49	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	just	just	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
51	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	parataxis	_	_
52	along	along	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	62	punct	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	62	cc	_	_
60	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
61	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
63	to	to	ADP	IN	_	65	case	_	_
64	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	65	det	_	_
65	girls	girl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	62	obl	_	_
66	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	68	nsubj	_	_
67	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	68	aux	_	_
68	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	65	acl:relcl	_	_
69	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	68	advmod	_	_
70	washing	wash	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	68	conj	_	_
71	clothes	clothes	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	70	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
72	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	78	punct	_	_
73	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	78	cc	_	_
74	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	78	advmod	_	_
75	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	78	nsubj	_	_
76	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	78	aux	_	_
77	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	78	advmod	_	_
78	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	conj	_	_
79	to	to	PART	TO	_	80	mark	_	_
80	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	78	xcomp	_	_
81	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	80	advmod	_	_
82	before	before	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
83	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	88	nsubj	_	_
84	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	88	cop	_	_
85	at	at	ADP	IN	_	88	case	_	_
86	Soria	Soria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	88	compound	_	_
87	Moria	Moria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	88	compound	_	_
88	Castle	Castle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	80	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
89	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I |  |  |  | now; time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stay** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with you; long *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with you=Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the West Wind |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | must | I |  |  |  |  | first *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **tear down** | infinitive | I *not said here* | a bit of spruce fir |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location bit=Theme |
| 6 | **go** | present | I |  |  | the bleaching ground |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial\_Location |
| 7 | **dry** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | the clothes |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient clothes=Result |
| 8 | **go** | infinitive |  |  |  | the side of the hill |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along side=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **come** | future | you |  |  |  |  | to some girls | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to girl=Initial\_Location |
| 10 | **stand** | present · progressive | some girls |  |  | there |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 11 | **wash** | gerund | some girls *not said here* | clothes |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient |
| 12 | **not** **have** | future | you |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 13 | **walk** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 14 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  | before Soria Moria Castle |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 165](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/165/)
- next →: [sentence 167](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/167/)
- ↑ back to [Soria Moria Castle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/6/)