--- title: ‘If you will ride into that wood, and search it carefully to see if… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘If you will ride into that wood, and search it carefully to see if you can light upon a fellow who is hiding in there, you shall have the loan of my horse and a good present of money for your trouble.’ Who acts: you, fellow, your. 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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 (you, fellow, your), 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:pg540:9:214 # text = ‘If you will ride into that wood, and search it carefully to see if you can light upon a fellow who is hiding in there, you shall have the loan of my horse and a good present of money for your trouble.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 If if SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 ride ride VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 into into ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 search search VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 conj _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 obj _ _ 13 carefully carefully ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 advcl _ _ 16 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 light light VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 ccomp _ _ 20 upon upon ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fellow fellow NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 24 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 hiding hide VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 acl:relcl _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 11 conj _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 loan loan NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 horse horse NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 present present NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 money money NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 trouble trouble NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | future | you | | | that wood | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent into wood=Trajectory | | 2 | **search** | infinitive | you *not said here* | wood | | | | carefully *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Location | | 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 4 | **light** *a condition, not said to happen* | can | you | | | | | upon a fellow | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **hide** | present · progressive | a fellow | | | | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in there=Location | | 6 | **have** | shall | you | the loan of my horse and a good present of money for your trouble | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loan=Patient | | 7 | **loan** | | | my horse | | | | | nom loan «possession transitive»: of=patient | | 8 | **trouble** | | your | | | | | | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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 213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/213/) - next →: [sentence 215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/215/) - ↑ back to [The Master Thief](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg540/9/)