--- title: ‘It wouldn’t be good for you to sleep here,’ said the old hag, ‘for… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘It wouldn’t be good for you to sleep here,’ said the old hag, ‘for if the people of the house come home and find you, they will kill both you and me.’ Who acts: youth, you, people. 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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 (youth, you, people), 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:pg540:9:17 # text = ‘It wouldn’t be good for you to sleep here,’ said the old hag, ‘for if the people of the house come home and find you, they will kill both you and me.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 3 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 4 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 5 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 6 cop _ _ 6 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 ccomp _ _ 7 for for SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 11 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 14 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 hag hag NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 19 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 for for SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 21 if if SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 parataxis _ _ 28 home home ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 36 both both CCONJ CC _ 37 cc:preconj _ _ 37 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is** | would | youth | | | | | good *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | you | | | here | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | | the old hag | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent hag=Topic | | 4 | **come** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | the people of the house | | | | | home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | present | the people of the house *not said here* | you | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 6 | **kill** | future | people | you | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/18/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)